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Meanwhile, the French police had finally found Bakhtiar's body and put out international arrest warrants. Boyerahmadi had disappeared without a trace. Eventually Azadi and Vakili made their way to Geneva, where Azadi met his contact and was whisked out of the country. Vakili, however, was picked up by Swiss police on Aug. 21, while wandering lost and abandoned along the banks of Lake Leman. He was extradited to France the next month...
...government-service passports, many issued in Tehran on the same date. Most listed the same personal address, Karim-Khan 40, which turns out to be an intelligence- ministry building. All 13 arrived on Iran Air flights, using tickets issued on the same date and numbered sequentially. Switzerland issued international arrest warrants for them on June...
...Criminals calculate the odds of apprehension and rightly conclude that crime pays," says Adam Walinsky, the New York lawyer responsible for the crime bill's commendable police-corps proposal, which would award college scholarships in exchange for four years of law-enforcement work. "As recently as a decade ago, arrest rates for homicide exceeded 95%, even in the big cities. It's now down to 50%. The robbery arrest rate is down to 24%; it's 13% for burglaries." Why? Well, for one thing, there are currently 3.3 violent crimes committed for every police officer, exactly opposite the ratio...
Recognizing the relatively new threat of Jewish terrorism, the army has called for the arrest of five known leaders of the extremist Kach party to which Goldstein belonged and the disarming of others. Several Cabinet members have even proposed banning Kach altogether and treating it as a terrorist organization, like Hamas or Islamic Jihad.(Kach was already barred from the government in 1988 for being "racist and undemocratic...
...million, U.S. intelligence official Rick Ames and his wife Rosario allegedly sold Moscow a precious trove of American secrets. U.S. officials fear that during a nine-year period that ended with his arrest last week, he may have tipped off Moscow to virtually every CIA intelligence operation against the former Soviets, raising questions about America's security apparatus in the post-cold...