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...told Parker that the data Lee had downloaded would not harm U.S. security, even if it fell into the hands of a foreign power, adding that 99 percent of the information was available in open scientific literature. Which hardly made Lee, who will likely be under something resembling house arrest, seem like a threat to pass along those eight missing tapes to the Chinese and create a situation in which "hundreds of millions of people could be killed," as U.S. attorney George Stamboulidis put it last week...
...with a free hand. "It's not that Greece has the world's worst terrorist problem," says Wayne Merry, a former U.S. embassy official. "It's that Greece has the world's worst counterterrorism problem." What are Greek police doing? "Zilch, zip, zero," huffs a U.S. official. Not one arrest. Not one conviction...
...evidence. Then everything went into slow motion. U.S. officials claim it took four months for a Greek police crime lab to type the blood. And when it did, says the State Department in an intelligence report issued in May, the authorities "did not follow up aggressively, and made no arrest...
...source adds, "We have a 50,000-strong police force. We know that these suspects circulate within a neighborhood a quarter the size of Central Park. And we still can't catch them." Part of the problem, according to the State Department report: Greek laws make it hard to arrest and hold terrorists and offer no safeguards for witnesses and prosecutors...
CHARGED. EX-INDONESIAN PRESIDENT SUHARTO, 79, ailing political strongman now under house arrest; with embezzling up to $570 million from state coffers; in Jakarta. Suharto's lawyers claim he's mentally unfit to stand trial...