The competition and prize of a free car is a sprat to catch a mackerel.

举办竞赛并开出免费汽车的奖品不过是小钓饵。

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The prize catch is Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian thought to have masterminded the 1998 bombings of two American embassies in East Africa.

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But like Fastow, Kreinberg may be the little fish being used to catch a bigger prize.

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His catch-22 is that flogging off prize assets could make it more difficult to raise capital.

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