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Solo smugglers like yachtsmen and hippie wanderers have crisscrossed the South Pacific for decades. But organized crime didn't cast much of a shadow over the region until 2000, when police in Suva seized 350 kg of heroin bound for Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Since then, the law-enforcement radar has blipped increasingly often over Fiji. In 2002, 74 kg of methamphetamine was found on a ship in Singapore headed for Fiji and Australia; the same year Hawaiian police busted a syndicate that smuggled cocaine and ice to the U.S. mainland, Tonga, Fiji, Australia and New Zealand; and last...
...protect my son in the military. That's why we have these treaties, so that when Americans are captured, they're not tortured." SENATOR JOSEPH BIDEN, in an angry exchange with Attorney General John Ashcroft, during testimony about a Justice Department memo that argued that the U.S. is not bound by international treaties against torture while interrogating suspected members of al-Qaeda...
...Back in Iraq, the three captives knew nothing of that, though they assumed the videos taken of them eating nice meals would be used as propaganda. In reality, Agliana told TIME last week, the food was snatched away as soon as the cameras stopped rolling and the Italians were bound and forced to lie on the floor. Meals were limited mostly to pita bread and broth, and the men were often given only dirty water to drink, Agliana said. To cope, the three took on roles, with Salvatore Stefio's good English making him "the Leader." Agliana said he fell...
...He’s shrewd,” Mansfield says. “He’s not rule-bound but he’s intelligent with people which is unusual for a mathematician...
...bound by our constitution to follow the party platform, and I took that to by extension mean the policies of the sitting president, who is the head of the party,” Truesdell says...