Zar Gul sets out to destroy Yar Badshah and expose the criminal elements behind him.
The report stressed that it is not just athletes that are involved, but their support staff, doctors and organized criminal elements.
In Washington, CIA Director Michael Hayden told NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday that about 70 percent of Basra was under the control of "criminal elements" when the assault was launched.
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Most famously, if one window was broken in a building and left unrepaired (his italics), soon all the other windows would be broken too, and criminal elements would take over.
Although Grey Goose found no direct evidence to suggest direct involvement by the Russian government, "We did find evidence of links to some existing organized criminal elements in Russia, " says Ferguson.
"Since last Tuesday, the Iraqi Security Forces have been conducting cordon and strike operations against criminal elements across Basra, supported by efforts to encourage militias to give up their medium and heavy weapons, " he said.
Both elements are a key part of his strategy to reduce criminal justice costs.
As NPR's Anne Garrels reports, it's just the latest case linking elements of the Iraqi security forces to sectarian militias and criminal gangs.
Elements in such a charge include demonstrating the death was caused by a criminal act, and that the act demonstrated a depraved mind without regard for human life.
There are elements of this that are more in the nature of a political statement than the conventional defense against criminal charges.
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