Word: snatching
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After standing room dried up, those of us still hoping to get in became a cancellation line, and we waited for people to reject tickets that we would gladly snatch up. Eventually the two people in front of me got in the theater—and then I lucked out. I was able to buy the canceled ticket of a very nice, very attractive actress, who co-stars on network television’s most critically-lauded drama; I also, then, had the opportunity to sit next to her in great house seats for the show and exchange...
...pressure on what a representative for chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte calls the "last safe haven" for war criminals in the Balkans. Meanwhile, NATO troops in the region, widely criticized for their failure to nab Karadzic and Mladic so far, have recommitted themselves to the task. Rumors that a snatch may take place soon swirl around the region. DON'T TOUCH HIM! warn posters of Karadzic pasted up recently by a Serb cultural group in nearby northern Montenegro. Zoran Zuza, a well-informed Bosnian-Serb journalist and political analyst in the former wartime stronghold of Pale, says Karadzic "realizes that...
...French patrols tour the rutted back roads around Foca and other towns. A U.N. source told TIME that British and French commando units began training in Bosnia in mid-May. Following Robertson's visit, a pro-Serb-Montenegrin newspaper claimed that British commandos had been killed in a snatch attempt. NATO officials went through the roof. "Absolutely twisted," said a senior British officer, denying the report as utter fabrication. But when NATO promptly launched an apparently routine 1,200-man exercise in the part of eastern Bosnia where Karadzic and others are rumored to be hiding, speculation in local cafes...
...snatch operation would probably be carried out by elite units, like the French squad that last year nabbed Karadzic's top lieutenant, Momcilo Krajisnik, from his home in Pale. A spokesman for the NATO force in Bosnia, Captain Andrew Coxhead, concedes that ordinary peacekeepers who encounter him during a routine patrol might not be equipped for the job. "You don't want to mess with these guys without sufficient force," he says, remembering an incident in Foca when an attempt to bag a suspect went wrong; the fugitive blew himself up with a hand grenade and injured four German soldiers...
...Security guards on watch for terrorists frisk bags and bodies at two separate checkpoints, confiscating anything from a long list of banned items, including tripods, mobile phones and video cameras. And if the guards don't get your equipment, the thieves might: pick-pockets work the lines, hoping to snatch some of the dazzling array of photographic technology on display. (Travelers' tip: stick black masking tape over the brand name on your camera...