Word: plotter
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...platoon of armed legionnaires; barbed wire masked the entrance to his office; squads with Tommy guns convoyed his car. For still at large were the masterminds: Abdullah el Tel, former Arab Legion colonel (sentenced to death in absentia for the Abdullah killing), and Jerusalem's Mufti, the greatest plotter of them...
...Amin el Husseini (59), Mufti of Jerusalem, veteran plotter against British rule in the Middle East, and ruthless enemy of the West. Spent most of World War II in Berlin. In 1946, while awaiting trial in Paris as a war criminal, he escaped, since then has lived in Egypt as King Farouk's honored guest. Ambition: to be head of an independent Palestinian state. Methods: 1) recruiting of an Arab army from the 800,000 bitter, hopeless refugees driven from their homes by the Arab-Israeli war; 2) murder and terrorism through such groups as his own "Salvation Army...
...least indirectly, to Egypt, and a brown three-story villa off Avenue Fuad in Cairo's exclusive Heliopolis suburb. There, in exile, guarded by the Egyptian police of his friend King Farouk, plus ten Palestinian toughs, sits the Mufti, the Middle East's greatest malcontent and plotter. The Mufti hated Abdullah because he had counted on Abdullah's arms to whip the Jews, whereupon the Mufti would take over all Palestine. Instead, Abdullah made peace with the Jews and personally annexed parts of Palestine to his tiny kingdom...
...bald spot, and his once rugged frame has grown so fat and flabby that his staff refer to him covertly in the Berlin dialect as "Pfannkuchen uff Beene"-pancake on legs. But inside, as the West is learning to its discomfort, Ernst Wollweber is still the tough and brutal plotter, still a master of his craft. His diligent Red troublemakers and riot-prompters speckle Western Germany. His saboteurs have infiltrated West Germany so extensively in recent months that West German industrialists announced last week they were planning a mutual security program to protect their plants. His smooth exploitation...
...Washington's Gallinger Hospital, the wounded Collazo willingly told the tale of his crazy pilgrimage. He and his fellow plotter had known each other only two weeks. But they had agreed that the President should die, and that it was their sacred duty to kill him. Why? With flowery Latin eloquence, Oscar Collazo cried that his countrymen had been "enslaved" and that Puerto Rico's politicians were "tools" of the United States...