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...business started with what's known in the trade as a "tiger kidnapping." (The tiger, see, stalks its prey.) Colin Dixon, 51, the manager of a security depot that stores money for commercial banks and the Bank of England, was driving past the Three Squirrels pub in Kent, southeast of London, when a car with men disguised as police officers forced him off the road. Two other fake cops went to the man's house, where they told his wife and young son that Dixon had been involved in an accident. All three were then taken to a safe house...
Currently, though no human cases have been found in Europe or the United States, the World Health Organization reported at least 92 confirmed human fatalities from the H5N1 flu virus—mostly in southeast Asia and China as well as Iraq and Turkey. The virus has already been found in commercial poultry in Asia, and, as of last Thursday, for the first time in Europe on a French turkey farm...
...business started with what is known in the trade as a "tiger kidnapping." (The tiger, see, stalks its prey.) Colin Dixon, 51, the manager of a security depot that stores money for commercial banks and the Bank of England, was driving past the Three Squirrels pub in Kent, southeast of London, when a car with men disguised as police officers forced him off the road. Two other fake cops went to the man's house, where they told his wife and young son that Dixon had been involved in an accident. All three were then taken to a safe house...
...police started to search for the gang, leads came in. Two people were detained the next day on suspicion of involvement in the crime; then a woman was arrested after trying to deposit $10,500 that appeared to have come from the Tonbridge haul at a southeast London bank. By the weekend, all three had been released on bail. But two more were arrested on Saturday, and a number of vehicles thought to have been connected to the raid were detained in Kent. Dixon's Nissan was found at the Cock Horse pub, and a red van that the gang...
...virus may already be spreading under the radar to other parts of the continent. Africa has an estimated poultry population of 1.1 billion birds, many of them sharing living space with people?the same epidemiological powder keg that enabled bird flu to cause so much damage in much of Southeast Asia. Avian-flu experts see impoverished Africa, with its inefficient governments and millions of immuno-compromised HIV infectees, as a perfect breeding ground for a pandemic...