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  • A few months later, his accomplice, Daniel Geiges, pleaded guilty to manufacturing and exporting equipment to Libya and Pakistan; he was given a thirteen-year suspended sentence.

    Fallout Catherine Collins 2011

  • A thirteen-year veteran of the Justice Department, she remembers that the plot posed a dilemma, because you want to see how far you can trace the conspiracy back into the tribal areas and up the command chain of al-Qaeda, yet at the same time as we understood the contours of the plot—liquid explosives, multiple simultaneous explosions, American airlines targeted—our feeling was, ‘How long can we let this thing go and have planes flying?’

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • Cain has been repeatedly asked questions about allegations from Ginger White that he had had a thirteen-year affair with her.

    Joe Peyronnin: Obama's Looking Good Joe Peyronnin 2011

  • A thirteen-year veteran of the Justice Department, she remembers that the plot posed a dilemma, because you want to see how far you can trace the conspiracy back into the tribal areas and up the command chain of al-Qaeda, yet at the same time as we understood the contours of the plot—liquid explosives, multiple simultaneous explosions, American airlines targeted—our feeling was, ‘How long can we let this thing go and have planes flying?’

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • Cain has been repeatedly asked questions about allegations from Ginger White that he had had a thirteen-year affair with her.

    Joe Peyronnin: Obama's Looking Good Joe Peyronnin 2011

  • King created an alternate identity as James Todd, pullman porter, and hid a thirteen-year marriage from his family, friends, and the world, a marriage that would produce five children and last until King's death in 1901.

    Passing Strange by Martha A Sandweiss: Questions 2009

  • With a thirteen-year age difference, Billy spent much of his life in the shadow of his older brother Jimmy.

    Five People Born on March 29 | myFiveBest 2010

  • In 1851 Olive Oatman was a thirteen-year old pioneer traveling west toward Zion, with her Mormon family.

    music bolmusic 2009

  • A thirteen-year veteran of the Justice Department, she remembers that the plot posed a dilemma, because you want to see how far you can trace the conspiracy back into the tribal areas and up the command chain of al-Qaeda, yet at the same time as we understood the contours of the plot—liquid explosives, multiple simultaneous explosions, American airlines targeted—our feeling was, ‘How long can we let this thing go and have planes flying?’

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • The novel is centered around thirteen-year old Tara and her elder brother Adi.

    EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Anil Menon 2009

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