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...charges of gunrunning for the I.R.A. (he was acquitted). As Taoiseach, his economic policies helped kindle Ireland's "Celtic Tiger" boom, but his last years in office were dogged by allegations of insider trading, conflicts of interest and tax evasion; he resigned in 1992 amid a phone-tapping scandal. In his farewell speech, borrowing from Othello, Haughey told the Irish parliament: "I have done the state some service and they know it." Numbers 7 Number of people whose deaths were attributed to excessive video-game playing last year, including a South Korean man who died after almost 50 straight hours...
...late May 2002, the National Security Agency had a gift for the CIA, and NSA Director Mike Hayden was on the phone to deliver it. They had as precious a dispatch as any since 9/11...
...communication from a designee of Osama bin Laden. The al-Qaeda chief had not used a cell phone or satellite phone since 1998. He was very careful. A ring of deputies, below the level of an Ayman al-Zawahiri or Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, carried messages for him. The United States had determined who some of them were. They made calls, or sent e-mails, on bin Laden's behalf. (See the top 10 inept terrorist plots...
...Saudis put out no press reports in the days following the gunfight. It took several days before they notified the United States. They never bothered to collect al-Ayeri's personal effects - his cell phone, his address book, the registry of his car, or trace such clues back to an apartment that might be searched...
Bahraini police found a phone number in Bokhowa's records that led to an address in Saudi Arabia. Three men were arrested in Riyadh. They were part of a diffuse community of radical Islamic activists in the kingdom. Beyond their connection to the Bahrainis, the Saudi trio was connected to another threesome of jihadists in the kingdom. They were arrested as well. All of these actions were handled under the supervision and encouragement of the CIA, which had large stations in both countries. This investigation was now a priority. Finding the mubtakkar designs in Bokhowa's computer had ensured that...