I suppose we scribes always go for the Big Story – the Lebanese intelligence boss blown to bits in the Syria-style bomb assassination.
Mr. Putin, whose usually inscrutable demeanor befits his old career as a Soviet intelligence agent, blew his customary cool Monday over the one issue that seems to have taken residence under his skin: Chechnya.
WASHINGTON — There once was no American institution more hostile to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's pariah government than the Central Intelligence Agency, which had lost its deputy Beirut station chief when Libyan intelligence operatives blew up Pan Am Flight 103 above Scotland in 1988.
After renouncing its nascent nuclear weapons program in 2003, and enjoying a brief interlude as Washington's partner in combating Al Qaeda's branch in North Africa, Libya has reverted to its status as a pariah government whose intelligence operatives blew up Pan Am Flight 103 above Scotland in 1988.
On Dec. 21, 1988, the Libyan state intelligence service blew a Pan Am jet out of the sky, scattering bodies and wreckage over the countryside of Lockerbie, Scotland.
He is a brilliant boy with an intelligence that blows his peers out of the water.
From that point onward there is no twinship between Adam and Helen; in fact the twinship does not reach quite that far, for neither light nor intelligence was blown into Adam's clay, but only the breath of physical life.
But the attention paid to the mutant-as-allegory-for-homosexuality element just proves the kind of double-standard that's often applied to superhero films: If you show even a flicker of intelligence, plus things blow up real good, you will be applauded as a masterpiece.
Professor Scharf, who was in the State Department counterterrorism unit during the Lockerbie investigation, said: "I've heard it said that it couldn't happen in Libya that a major in the intelligence service could blow up a plane without Qaddafi's blessing.
Proust so admired Picquart that he compared the whistle-blowing intelligence officer – who revealed the forgeries, lies and cover-ups that had wrongly convicted Captain Alfred Dreyfus of treason – to Socrates.
