Word: second-in-command
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...Undergraduate Council has chosen its new second-in-command. Last Thursday, Council members elected Clay T. Capp ’06, who ran unsuccessfully for the post in December, to replace Ian W. Nichols ’06, who resigned the position on May 8. The circumstances of Capp’s selection, however, stand to deprive the new vice president of much needed legitimacy, and leave open to him just one honorable course of action: resignation...
...since 1992 has the second-in-command of the UC resigned, when vice chair Maya G. Prabhu ’94 was accused of tampering with ballots...
Such synchronized attacks are a common al-Qaeda tactic, Israeli intelligence sources point out. And five days before the attacks, al-Jazeera aired a new tape of al-Qaeda's second-in-command, Egyptian native Ayman al-Zawahiri, calling for Muslims to support the Palestinian uprising by attacking Israel and the U.S. Mohammed Salah, an Egyptian expert on Islamic groups, notes that the Sinai operation targeted a number of key interests of al-Qaeda's sworn enemies: the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, Egypt's promotion of a comprehensive Middle East peace settlement and the security of Israel and Egypt, Washington...
...relies on a string of runners to carry his notes or recordings from his redoubts. Those audiotapes and videotapes reach news agencies in the Pakistani border city of Peshawar or the capital, Islamabad, strengthening the U.S. view that he's in Pakistan. Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden's second-in-command, also believed to be in the area, released such a tape last week, beseeching young Muslims to rally to his cause "if we are killed or captured...
...Americans in both countries are between two fires: if they continue they bleed to death and if they withdraw they lose everything." AYMAN AL-ZAWAHRI, Osama bin Laden's second-in-command, in a videotaped broadcast on al-Jazeera, predicting defeat for U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan...