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Intelligence officers dismiss such fiery talk as bluster, saying it would be difficult to conceal a terrorist plot in a country as small as Bosnia. "Word spreads fast," says Aner Hadzimahmutovic, antiterrorism chief at the State Investigation and Protection Agency. "If 15 people with beards meet in the bush, someone will report them to us." The one Bosnian who repeatedly claims to have trained and fought with al-Qaeda in Afghanistan - citing gory details of how he supposedly slit the throat of an Australian soldier - remains free. Nihad Cosic was arrested in a 2007 police raid in Pakistan, but released...
...Gallo is an actor who's all brooding surfaces and no depth. He can't touch whatever primal pain Coppola wants Tetro to conceal and then reveal. Nor has Coppola filled out the canvas with telling incidents or characters that go much beyond caricature. Sitting through the two-plus hours of Tetro can be an ordeal...
...everything to know about them - their families, their friends, their movements - then you've got an advantage," he says. "Because then they're thinking, 'Well, this guy already knows so much, there's no point in resisting ... I might as well tell him everything.'" When Abu Zubaydah tried to conceal his identity after his capture, Soufan stunned him by using the nickname given to him by his mother. "Once I called him 'Hani,' he knew the game was up," Soufan says...
...region's affairs. "The government has given local cadres great power, but shown little supervision. They have learned to use the goal of 'stable development' as a shield," the report says. It adds that many officials have learned to use the threat of "outside forces" promoting Tibetan independence to conceal their inability to address local problems...
...Still, even for cash flush traffickers, these narco-tunnels are not small undertakings. The Otay Mesa tunnel could easily have cost more than a million dollars; several hundred truckloads would have been needed to carry away the excavated soil. Covert tunneling entails more security risks that cost extra to conceal. On top of that, US officials believe they caught the latest sophisticated tunnel soon after it came online...