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He did nothing about scandals at the FSB (the successor agency to the KGB) when he was its director, and "[a]s prime minister, his only claim to fame has been to seize upon a truly bad situation in Chechnya as an excuse to wage an imperial war, one that punishes civilians in the name of protecting them."
Reviewers also seize the opportunity to imbue Shakur's meager oeuvre with an aura of James Dean-ish tragedy.
Many conservatives who argued throughout the war that we shouldn't have got into it now say we didn't really win it because we didn't invade Serbia, seize Belgrade, depose or kill Milosevic, and force the Serbs to agree explicitly to Kosovar independence.
After October 1999, when the State Department formally designated al Qaeda a "foreign terrorist organization," it became the duty of U.S. banks to block its transactions and seize its funds.
France's Le Monde saw a silver lining in the crisis and said the institution had to seize this opportunity to "clean up its administrative and financial habits, improve its decision-making process and, most of all, rediscover the inspiration and drive it has lost.