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...Sock,” and Roadie (the band’s major force in songwriting) for playing the guitar and “Shot Glass.” Unfortunately, this isn’t manifested as whimsical lyrics or playful guitar lines in the music, but rather as amateurish simplicity...
...Samoud missiles. "We are not watching the breaking of toothpicks," Blix said. ElBaradei disputed the veracity of Western intelligence reports that Iraq had purchased uranium from Niger. Secretary of State Colin Powell could barely contain his exasperation with the inspectors' upbeat assessments. Privately, his aides trashed them--"Pathetically unaggressive, amateurish and believing everything the Iraqis tell them," a senior State Department official said--and claimed that the inspectors are ignoring tips from U.S. intelligence and capitulating to Iraqi intimidation. Inspectors vehemently deny the charges. But Powell's Russian and French counterparts hailed the reports of progress and repeated their threats...
...trashing inspectors assessments: Secretary of State Colin Powell could barely contain his exasperation with the inspectors' upbeat assessments. Privately, TIME reports, his aides trashed them-"Pathetically unaggressive, amateurish and believing everything the Iraqis tell them," a senior State Department official said-and claimed that the inspectors are ignoring tips from U.S. intelligence and capitulating to Iraqi intimidation. Inspectors vehemently deny the charges...
...When it comes to the risky work of planting lethal substances or detonating bombs, Saddam is not likely to expose his few trained agents. In the past, says an FBI veteran, "They've used people who are expendable" - and amateurish. During the Persian Gulf war, two Iraqi students blew themselves up trying to bomb a US Information Service building in Manila. FBI laboratory scientists who examined an unexploded bomb recovered in 1991 from the U.S. Ambassador's residence in Jakarta, a second device intercepted by Turkish authorities and a third bomb seized in April, 1993, by Kuwaiti police when they...
...than spook people with armed police in riot gear, officials in Cologne decided to train plainclothesmen to guard the city's famous holiday market. Officials were especially jittery at the NATO summit in Prague, after two attempts to derail commuter trains ahead of the meeting. The unknown saboteurs were amateurish - they parked a car on the tracks in one instance and planted a homemade bomb in the other - but just to be safe, the government slapped a 30-km/h speed limit on trains in the capital. Intelligence experts elsewhere worried that Eastern and Central European countries were not doing enough...