The arrest in Kosovo, earlier this month, of six alleged members of the so-called Ilirida Republican Army, a new Albanian-nationalist group, produced sighs of relief in Skopje, where Slav-Macedonians often accuse the West of coddling armed Albanians.

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This week its founder, Soner Yalcin, was detained along with three fellow hacks for alleged involvement with the so-called Ergenekon gang of generals and like-minded coup-mongers, who are standing trial on charges of seeking to overthrow the government.

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One is this so-called, or alleged intelligence cell and its relation to the Special Plans Office.

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Mr Sarkozy was said to have a dossier ready, including the so-called Carlton affair of alleged prostitutes in Lille now under investigation.

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In the trial, the prosecution in Milan have alleged that women were invited to Mr Berlusconi's private residence for so-called "bunga-bunga" party evenings as part of a prostitution system set up for his personal sexual satisfaction.

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There have been exceptions, including a 2006 decision by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Detroit allowing the so-called Daffin class action to proceed over Ford minivans alleged to have sticky throttles. (Ford settled.) But in cases involving Harley-Davidson motorcycles, Daimler-Chrysler cars, and Canon digital cameras, courts have refused to hold manufacturers liable for what consumers fear might happen to their products.

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Hundreds of such alleged miscreants, including around 30 serving generals, are in prison awaiting trial in connection with the so-called Ergenekon conspiracy to overthrow Mr Erdogan.

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We're greedy for gossip on her alleged plastic surgeries and shrinking physique, or her supposed estrangement from her children with Tom Cruise and so-called rocky marriage to Keith Urban, a recovering alcoholic.

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Bunyan is alleged to have accessed highly sensitive police data to perform background checks on women and their former partners after so-called "welfare" visits to victims of crime.

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Late last fall when the nature of rushed foreclosure closures and so-called robo-signing came to a head, regulators and politicians alike seemed appalled by the alleged actions.

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