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Agents score a big drug bust...
...drug bust last week between the Khyber Pass and Peshawar in northwest Pakistan was one of the biggest in history. Yet it represented just a fraction of the exports from the so-called Golden Crescent, an area spanning parts of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran that produces the lion's share of the world's heroin. The raw material for the drug is grown in 100,000 acres of opium-poppy fields, processed in local laboratories and smuggled out through Pakistan. The Golden Crescent accounts for as much as 90% of the heroin sold in Western Europe and more...
...Golden Crescent. All of them are smugglers who turned to informing to make more money or to settle old scores. Since moving to Peshawar three years ago, Khan has seized 1,458 kilos of heroin. "I do not feel any sense of elation when we make a big bust," says Khan. "What I worry about is whether my informant's cover has been blown. If it has, then it means we have a lot of time to make...
...basement and that they "make their living on selling drugs." Prompted by the letter, officers made a preliminary investigation, went to a magistrate, got a warrant, searched the Gates home and car and found more than 350 lbs. of marijuana, along with drug paraphernalia, weapons and ammunition. A good bust of two suspected drug traffickers? Not exactly. Instead, that case turned out to be potentially the most important test of the search-and-seizure rules in two decades...
...Fleet Street scamps?a photo opportunity in exchange for privacy over the year-end holidays?dissolved in futility as the pack went hallooing off in all directions after Koo, Andrew, Charles and Diana. Koo had shown surprising staying power for a princely romance, despite speculative QUEEN BANS KOO and BUST-UP AS ANDY IS TOLD TO DROP HIS GIRL headlines in the Sun, a journal that occasionally runs its royals coverage down the side of what is called its "tits-and-bums" page, in giddy proximity to the precariously cantilevered breasts and shyly undraped buttocks of naked models...