Word: plot
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...keep track of the suspects. Just ask federal investigators trying to unravel the Algerian Connection: the conspiracy behind Ahmed Ressam's attempt to bring bombmaking materials into the U.S. last December. Until they can interrogate some missing players, the feds won't know if the plot is the work of alleged terror nemesis Osama bin Laden...
...good bet for finding the brains behind the bomb plot, investigators believe, may be a third man Canadian authorities were watching: Slahi. Born in Mauritania, he moved to Montreal last fall from Germany. U.S. officials found he had been in contact with Haouari. When his name was run through the databases, it turned out he was the brother-in-law of one of bin Laden's closest associates, a man cryptically known as "the Mauritanian." Washington experts say that man is a member of bin Laden's Shura, or advisory council, and there are indications that he may know something...
...that the Saudi superterrorist is a global mastermind able to wreak havoc anywhere in the world at the click of a Send button, this ubiquity says more about the diffuse nature of his operations. U.S. investigators were reported Thursday to have uncovered links between Bin Laden and the bomb plot foiled last December by the arrest of a number of Algerian militants on U.S. soil. The suspected head of the Canada-based Algerian group was arrested recently in Senegal, at Washington's request, pending formal charges. Investigators say Mohambedou Ould Slahi also happens to be the brother...
...Over the past two weeks, the rebels' hit-and-run tactics have managed to check the Russians' juggernaut offensive, inflicting politically humiliating attacks on Russia's superior forces and politically damaging body counts. Even if Russia has regained control of the battlefield, the guerrillas have melted away to plot new surprises. Acting President Vladimir Putin's confident prediction of imminent victory--and his triumphal glide to the presidency in March--is slipping toward the Chechen quagmire...
...Guevara, reborn democrat? Unlikely, sure, but so is Gary Hart, novelist. His characters wade through the plot as if it were molasses. Hart tries to goose things along with lengthy quotes from Che's diary: "The revolutionary is a visionary. He sees things other people don't see, the 'practical ones.' The 'practical' person operates within the boundaries of what is. The revolutionary sees what ought to be." A few hundred pages of this, and the reader starts rooting for the assassins...