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...outrage and a public debate on violence and security in schools. The suspected killer, a 17-year-old boy, fled the scene but later gave himself up to the police. Caught on the Run EGYPT Police arrested two members of Italy 's ultra-leftist Red Brigades group convicted in absentia of terrorist activities by Italian courts. One of the two, Rita Algranati, was sentenced to life in prison for her role in the 1978 kidnapping and murder of two-time Prime Minister Aldo Moro. In the Crosshairs MIDDLE EAST Israel sealed off the Gaza Strip and threatened to resume assassinations...
ARRESTED. ANDREW LUSTER, 39, heir to the Max Factor cosmetics fortune and convicted rapist who fled in January during his trial; by police in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico; after being nabbed by bounty hunters. Convicted and sentenced in absentia to 124 years in prison for drugging and raping three women in his Los Angeles-area home, Luster was deported back to California, where he has begun serving his sentence...
...CAPTURED. ANDREW LUSTER, 39, great-grandson of cosmetics magnate Max Factor; by bounty hunters; in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Luster fled the U.S. in January, when he jumped bail of $1 million. He had been sentenced in absentia to 124 years in jail on more than 80 charges, including date raping three women. Luster lived off a trust fund and investments believed to total about $31 million. He has been deported to Los Angeles to begin his prison term. ?By Carmen Lee, with bureau reports...
...State Department and the CIA, he's an opportunist, a shameless self-promoter and an embezzler. He opened a bank in Jordan that grew into the country's second largest, then was expropriated by the Jordanian government in the late '80s amid charges of fraud. Chalabi was convicted in absentia by a Jordanian military court after friends, said to include Jordan's then Crown Prince Hassan, sped him out of the country. Chalabi has always maintained his innocence. Many State Department officials say Chalabi has been good at lobbying Congress for money but poor at accounting for his spending. These...
...accident. While experimenting with explosives in January 1995, Yousef set fire to his Manila apartment and fled. Police found evidence linking him to Mohammed. Other plotters arrested in Asia named Mohammed as their ringleader. But by then he had escaped to Doha, Qatar. In 1996 he was indicted in absentia in a New York federal court for the airline-bombing plot. But when the U.S. notified Qatar that he was a wanted man, Mohammed was tipped off and fled the emirate, according to Washington intelligence sources. As for Yousef, he was captured in Pakistan in 1995 and convicted of carrying...