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...some $93 million stolen from a depot, prompted a huge manhunt last week. Local police first said the theft had been "executed with military precision." Really? Now it looks more like a comedy of errors. Future tips: DON'T FORGET THE BLINDFOLDS: Gang members posed as bogus cops to kidnap Securitas manager Colin Dixon and his family. But without a blindfold, Dixon was able to provide a composite image of the man who abducted him, whose beard (believed to be fake) was a different color from his hair. DON'T LEAVE CASH LYING AROUND: Possibly after realizing fresh bank notes...
...Greek, but she later shook off Roussel's influence. A French playboy who married and then divorced Christina, Roussel used to manage Athina's fortune in concert with the foundation, though his own relations with its members were stormy - Roussel even accused Athina's Greek trustees of plotting to kidnap his daughter. Athina eventually bucked against his control, and moved to Brussels where she became involved with her current husband, a man 12 years her senior. When, in response to this liaison, her father attempted to tighten the purse strings, Athina took him to court, winning full control...
...years ago swore an oath of loyalty to Bin Laden, he is believed previously to have had something of a competitive relationship with the al-Qaeda leadership. And the public statements attributed to Zarqawi and those of Ayman al-Zawahiri have been noticeably at odds over questions of beheading kidnap victims and of wanton violence against Shiite Muslims. Zarqawi may have embraced the Qaeda brand with Bin Laden as its figurehead, but his essentially autonomous field operation in Iraq has become the movement's center of gravity...
...code is especially protective of women. We know from the women who have been held captive in Iraq that, unlike male kidnap victims, they were never physically abused; their captors were always respectful. This is not to suggest that their kidnappers were noble - far from it - only that they are products of their environment and culture...
PLEADED NOT GUILTY. JOSE PADILLA, 35, U.S. citizen held without charge for more than three years as an enemy combatant suspected of terrorist ties; to new charges--filed after his lawyers were poised to challenge his detention before the Supreme Court--of conspiracy to "murder, kidnap and maim" abroad; in Miami...