Word: clementina
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...said to be five months pregnant, was abducted in front of a bakery popular with foreigners; witnesses say they heard gunshots and saw the woman bundled into a blue Toyota Corolla by unidentified armed men. She is the first foreigner to be abducted in Kabul since Italian aid worker Clementina Cantoni was seized in front of her compound in May of 2005. Cantoni was eventually released unharmed 24 days later; it is still unknown if a ransom was paid. Meier may not be so lucky. One of the German engineers was shot within a few days of his abduction...
...terror czar Gijs de Vries said, "a risk we must take seriously." Apprehending terror suspects is one thing; convicting them is another. That difficulty was highlighted last week in Milan when five Muslim men who had recruited fighters for Iraq were acquitted of terrorism charges. Judge Clementina Forleo noted that the 1999 draft U.N. convention on terrorism stipulates that paramilitary activity in war zones does not violate international law as long as it does not target civilians. Because there was no evidence that the men recruited by the two Moroccan and three Tunisian defendants planned to attack civilians, Forleo ruled...
...DIED. CLEMENTINA ANGELA LEITAO HO, 80, first wife of Macau casino mogul Stanley Ho; in Hong Kong. Leitao, a Portuguese national and daughter of a prominent Macanese businessman, was credited with helping Ho secure an exclusive casino franchise in 1962 from Macau's Portuguese colonial government. The casino monopoly was the foundation for Ho's estimated $1.4 billion fortune...