Word: masterminding
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...Sugihara's 89-year-old widow, Yukiko, is the suit's plaintiff of record, but the case's true motivator is Katsumasa Watanabe, the mastermind behind Japan's burgeoning Sugihara-deification industry. He owns Taisho Shuppan, a small Tokyo publisher that produces books on only two subjects: railway history and Sugihara's heroism. Watanabe says he was "blown away that such a man existed in Japan," after happening upon a TV documentary about Sugihara in 1991. Watanabe immediately sought out Yukiko Sugihara and published her two memoirs along with three biographies of her late husband. These days, Watanabe leads...
Prosecuting former CEO Jeffrey Skilling, widely seen as Enron's mastermind, will probably be the trickiest case. Skilling was so sure he had committed no crime that he waived his right against self-incrimination and testified before Congress that "I was not aware of any inappropriate financing arrangements." Prosecutors may try to nail him for perjury, and they have reportedly widened their probe to investigate his role in Enron's broadband venture...
...Christian churches. (Laskar Jundullah is openly anti-Christian; Indonesian intelligence officials suspect that the group has been provoking tension in Maluku and Poso.) According to National Police Chief Da'i Bachtiar, one of the men arrested, Suryadi, is an associate of Imam Samudra, whom police say was the mastermind of the Bali bombings and a devotee of Abubakar Ba'asyir, alleged co-founder of JI. "Dwikarna, the bombers, Abubakar?all of these people know each other and are connected in some way," says South Sulawesi Police Chief Firman Gani...
...Khan, a Pashtun, and Ismail Khan, a Tajik, pounded each other's positions near Shindand airbase in western Afghanistan. Karzai admitted he will not be able to exercise authority much beyond Kabul until the army is fully formed. INDONESIA Tightening Net Police arrested Ali Ghufron, a.k.a. Mukhlas, the suspected mastermind behind the Bali bombing and a senior commander of the radical group Jemaah Islamiah. At least 12 other people were arrested for the Oct. 12 attack that killed nearly 200 people, most of them foreign tourists. Mukhlas' brother, Amrozi, arrested earlier, has admitted to having obtained bomb-making materials. Police...
...Qaeda's first venture in SE Asia was a 1995 plot to simultaneously detonatbombs on 11 U.S. jetliners over the Pacific. The operation was thwarted, and several of the participants arrested, including Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of the February 1993 attack on the World Trade Center. At the time, both Western and Asian security agencies did not understand that the Ramzi Yousef cell was part of a wider, regional network; they believed he had gone to the Philippines for this one operation. As a result, no serious attempt was made to unravel the front companies and detect the militants buttressing...