Word: recruited
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...Pakistani efforts to forge a Pashtun opposition to the Taliban are falling behind the battlefield advances. With the death last month of prominent Pashtun war commander Abdul Haq--who was betrayed and executed by the Taliban while trying to recruit tribal elders for a revolt--U.S. hopes are pinned on Hamad Karzai, a pro-Western Pashtun nobleman who is in southern Afghanistan, urging tribal elders to back exiled King Mohammed Zahir Shah...
...Giambi. Or Johnny Damon. Or Jermaine Dye. Kansas City seems to promote all its good players to the A’s. Can you name the players Oakland traded to Kansas City for these guys? The way the system works, Oakland benefits while Kansas City is sent back to recruit more talent. Watch for Mike Sweeney to be traded to Oakland if Giambi bolts...
...saboteursThe German intelligence service had developed a program to recruit disaffected Americans who had reaffiliated to Germany. The expats were to be trained in sabotage and sent back to the U.S. Eight were selected for the June, 1942 mission that sent two small submarines to the U.S., one to Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida and one to Amagansett, Long Island. They surfaced, took small rubber craft to shore, and were in the process of burying their uniforms and some explosives when an unarmed Coast Guardsman drew near...
...Vasquez brothers and Parker, prosecutors allege, were involved in a plot to recruit area homeless people in to a robbery ring. Prosecutors said they organized a Halloween-night meeting at a Braintree hotel, during which they spoke to about 15 new gang recruits, including Rook...
...They were renegade Latin Kings,” Leppy said. “They wanted to recruit homeless people. It was a power move.” The group was told to bring the stolen items back to the hotel within three days, prosecutors said, but the suspects kept Rook as an insurance policy...