Word: masterminding
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...finger of suspicion pointed to Osama bin Laden, the Saudi terrorist sheltered by the Taliban. But two days later the explosion in the country's Amu Darya valley was drowned out by the terror attacks on New York and Washington. Now, with bin Laden emerging as the most likely mastermind of those atrocities, the attack on Massoud has come in for renewed scrutiny. The inevitable question: Was there a connection between...
...Elsewhere, the investigation into last Tuesday's attacks proceeded on several fronts, as authorities arrested two more people with ties to the suspected terrorists and a Pakistani delegation gave Afghanistan's Taliban three days to hand over fugitive terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden. This after a grim weekend of dimmed hopes in New York City as rescue workers at the World Trade Center site marked their fifth day without finding a survivor in the wreckage. Pentagon sources put the death toll there at 188, including the 64 passengers aboard American flight 77. Authorities there say rebuilding the Pentagon could take...
...terrorists in the Middle East were the immediate focus of speculation, several groups—including bin Laden’s Al Quaida group and officials of the Taliban government in Afghanistan—denied taking any part in the attacks, saying they do not have the ability to mastermind such a large-scale operation...
...Hall structure the book backwards, starting with a triple, simultaneous shooting, and then telling each character's backstory in a separate chapter. Taking place in the 1930s or so, "Pistolwhip" uses the conventions of film noir (private detectives, femme fatales, mysterious old men) in its own goofball way. The mastermind's henchmen all inexplicably wear pirate outfits, for example. Or else a woman asks a musician what happened to his band, "The New Ideas." "Eet is a mistake," he says, pulling a gun on her, "Zhere are no New Ideas...
...believe Senator Tom Daschle or anyone else in the current Democratic Party leadership was smart enough to mastermind the political switch of Senator Jim Jeffords of Vermont from the Republican Party [WASHINGTON POWER SHIFT, June 4]. The reason is simple. The Democrats haven't demonstrated such savvy in the past. If they had really been on the ball, they would have gone to President Clinton and told him to clean up his act rather than put the country through the agony of impeachment. If they had achieved that, their Jeffords story would at least be credible. It's a good...