[Pagey]

It's refreshing to know the press is biased in other countries also.

One source said at least one person with links to Al Qaida was providing information to the Czech government. But that agent had been lost, the source said.

What does that mean? Is this their simpleton way of saying he's been KILLED?"Lost" is pretty vague. "I lost my keys on the beach and never found them again" compared to " That Agent has been lost".See?

[Fabozz]

They say "lost" because they don't want to specify exactly who the agent was. If they said "killed" then al-Qaeda would say, "hey, looks like ol' Abdul we scragged last week really was an agent." By saying "lost," they leave open the possibility that, say, the agent is still alive and well inside al-Qaeda, but has stopped providing information—which forces al-Qaeda to consider the possibility that, whoever the agent is, he might start providing information again once the heat cools down.