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...high finance and cold-blooded murder. Provenzano, who had been sentenced to life in absentia for a series of high-profile murders, had opted for the spare existence in order to keep the lowest possible profile as he tried to stay one step ahead of Italy's biggest Mafia manhunt ever...
...most sacred symbols of Greece, a 700-year-old icon of the Virgin Mary, was stolen on Aug. 18 from a remote monastery 300 km southeast of Athens.[an error occurred while processing this directive] Despite an international manhunt, the thieves are still at large. George Gligoris, head of the national police unit that investigates antiquities smuggling, profiles the thieves and explains how he recovers stolen treasures. Why Byzantine icons? They're a hot commodity. Only a few are left, so demand is high. What's the profile of an antiquities thief? There are three types. The first is basically...
Britain's biggest ever cash robbery, 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...
...curtain of black. He responds to his own question, saying, "I am among the Muslim masses." He could be speaking figuratively, meaning that while circumstances require him to lay low, he enjoys popular support. But he could well be speaking literally, in effect bragging that despite the relentless manhunt, he is able to move around in Muslim circles, "enjoying God's blessing...
...peak of his notoriety, some folks called him, inevitably, an international man of mystery; others, the death merchant. He was the subject of the 1986 best seller Manhunt: the Dramatic Pursuit of a CIA Agent Turned Terrorist, by Peter Maas. The former Marine, 77, stands 6 ft. 4 in. tall and was someone to be reckoned with. But Edwin Wilson's roller-coaster ride as a freelance spy flew off the rails in 1982, when he was lured out of Libya in a sting operation conducted by U.S. marshals. He then was convicted in a series of sensational trials...