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...savage end to the senseless crime left families and newsrooms and governments reeling. Pearl was the victim, but Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf--despised by some in his country for having abandoned his extremist allies in favor of the U.S.--may have been just as much a target. News of Pearl's murder reminded us what an ominous storm Pakistan is, with war at its edges and zealots in hiding and a President willing to risk everything by siding with the U.S. in its war against terror. His effort to drag Pakistan away from its tradition of fostering religious militancy...
However vehemently Milosevic insists that the whole Serb nation stands accused, this is his trial alone. He is taking a road that has been traveled before in Serb history: he is the victim, the little guy against the world, who will be victorious even--or especially--in defeat. He may be in prison, but he says he is free. "My name is Slobodan with a capital S," he said; slobodan means free in his native language. He declares he was a peacemaker whose only crime was to oppose "the might" of the West...
...Dutch are using a more innovative technique for discouraging cell-phone thieves. In Amsterdam, police spam stolen cell phones with short message service (SMS) technology. When a victim reports a theft, police take the number and send an SMS message every three to five minutes to the stolen phone. It says: "You are in possession of a stolen cell phone. Did you know that stealing a cell phone is a crime punishable by imprisonment? Using a stolen cell phone is too, and you are risking a prison term of one year...
What's the best way to disable a stolen phone? At present, a victim of cell-phone theft contacts the operating network to block the subscriber identity module, or sim card, to prevent further calls from that number. The handset, however, will remain operational if a new sim card is inserted. So current attempts to combat the use of stolen cell phones are also focusing on the handset's IMEI, or international mobile equipment identifier, an individual serial number for each phone that is transmitted when a call is made from that handset. Mobile phone operators could pool information...
...express deep sorrow for the family of the victim of this horrible crime, Aleta Carol Bunch. But as has been said many times before, nothing can bring Aleta back, nor will executing her killer right any wrong. Life in prison will prevent him from ever having the chance to commit a crime again...