Word: spooks
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...years, Lee's company, Singa Takara Enterprises, struggled to turn a profit selling custom-made spook equipment to clients such as the Iranian secret police. Then, in December, one of Taiwan's tabloid magazines whipped up a scandal by distributing free copies of an X-rated video purported to be of former Taipei politician Chu Mei-feng as she entertained somebody else's husband. The couple was secretly filmed with a thumbnail-sized camera hidden in a bedroom. Since the incident, which became an Internet sensation, Lee can't keep his shelves stocked?and Taiwan is gripped with hidden-camera...
...most sensitive information, and walk out again with highly classified documents. But that's just what happened last week at Castlereagh Police Station in Belfast. The perpetrators of this audacious crime did more than just provide the authors of cheap fiction with a new plot twist - they managed to spook the real-life spooks...
...marginal rate cuts approved earlier this year would provide an incentive to work and invest. And the corporate sector, which has dropped sharply, would respond favorably to a fiscal stimulus, especially given that there are no signs of significant excess capacity. Krugman should know these arguments, but his spook tactics are aimed at readers who don?...
Last week's advisory stemmed from a flurry of suspicious chattering among al-Qaeda operatives intercepted by the U.S. and its spook friends over the past few days. Some of the noise pointed to a blanket directive issued by bin Laden to kill Americans at will without waiting for approval from the top; the fact that it is now the runup to the holy month of Ramadan only heightened authorities' suspicions...
...Last week's advisory stemmed from a flurry of suspicious chattering among al-Qaeda operatives intercepted by the U.S. and its spook friends over the past few days. Some of the noise pointed to a blanket directive issued by bin Laden to kill Americans at will without waiting for approval from the top; the fact that it is now the runup to the holy month of Ramadan only heightened authorities' suspicions...