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...Fadiga was accused of shoplifting a gold necklace worth $240 in Taegu City, South Korea. If the hairs on the back of your neck are standing up, it's because you recall in 1970, en route to the Mexico World Cup, English skipper Bobby Moore was arrested in Bogota, Colombia, for?stealing a gold necklace. Moore, one of the greatest defenders in the history of the game, was arrested, released and endured a two-year investigation before finally being cleared of the charge. Fadiga was not arrested, although the police are investigating the case; the shopkeeper reportedly declined to press...
...with Cuba. The report cites the indefinite imprisonment of 300 men captured in Afghanistan at Camp X-Ray as an example of violation of human rights and condemned the detention without recourse to the normal legal process of more than 1,100 foreign nationals since Sept. 11. COLOMBIA Time to Talk Having won the election outright in the first round, President-elect Alvaro Uribe pledged to commit men and money to a crackdown on the drug trade. Uribe won 53% of the vote and promised to halt the activities of left-wing rebels and right-wing paramilitaries, who use money...
...after he graduated, he embarked on a six-month backpacking trip from Colombia to Antarctica for research and photography. A Turkish newspaper wrote a story about his trip and mentioned that he was looking for funding for a book project about African natural history and conservation...
...COLOMBIA No Refuge...
Antigovernment rebels took responsibility for the deadliest single incident in the 38-year civil war - the killing of 117 villagers, including 45 children, sheltering in a church at Bojaya. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) said a mortar bomb accidentally hit the church during fighting with right-wing paramilitary soldiers. Government troops later regained control of the area...