Word: membership
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...regime's history of working with groups of all manner of ideologies as part of its struggle for strategic control of Lebanon. Lebanese officials suspect that Syria has covert ties with Fatah al-Islam because Syria freed al-Absi from prison and because al-Absi maintained a long membership in the Syrian-backed Fatah Intifadeh group. The tie is difficult to prove, for the moment at least. But the Siniora government's suspicions, the heavy fighting in Tripoli and the looming showdown with Syria over the U.N. tribunal may combine for another season of turmoil in Lebanon...
...Wolfowitz always enjoyed an advantage at the table: he knew who he was - and wasn't - up against and he exploited the weaknesses of the board's polyglot membership adroitly. He knew the board would have trouble reaching a consensus about his fate; he knew that its members were divided internally; he probably also figured that they were reluctant to take firm action knowing such a move could trigger other investigations into small-stroke favoritism inside the largely oversight-free World Bank...
...trip to DaimlerChrysler headquarters in Stuttgart, where Zetsche said he would not be dissuaded from selling and Cerberus was the best of the potential buyers, Gettelfinger offered a tepid endorsement. "It's going to happen, and we're going to make it happen in the best interest of our membership," he said...
...Lynchburgh, Va., family with utility company and entertainment businesses, Falwell started the Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg after graduating from a Missouri Bible college. A year later, the church's membership had grown from 35 to nearly 1000. Like many of his denomination, he railed against premarital sex, adultery and drinking - and in 1965, just a few weeks after Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama, Falwell delivered a sermon that urged against any formal mixture of politics and faith: "Believing the Bible as I do, I would find it impossible to stop preaching the pure saving gospel of Jesus Christ...
...Egypt. While on a religious pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia in February 2000, he got cozy with al-Qaeda operatives, who recruited him to train for jihad in Afghanistan, the government claimed in court records. On July 24, 2000, he allegedly filled out a five-page "Mujahadeen Data Form," or membership application...