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...Paris or by succumbing to injuries sustained in a car accident last year. Seoul has learned that she was seriously ill, according to a source close to government officials working on the case, and that North Korea recently imported an expensive coffin from France. "The government is trying to confirm various possibilities," is all a spokesperson for South Korea's Unification Ministry would...
...That conclusion will confirm the fears of regional intelligence officials and terrorism experts that Abu Sayyaf has evolved into a much more ferocious band. A new leadership has abandoned the kidnapping that brought in millions of dollars in ransom. Now, the group is returning to its Islamic roots and is using the familiar weapons of terror?bombing and assassination?in an attempt to achieve an independent Muslim republic in the southern Philippines. Abu Sayyaf already claims to be connected to al-Qaeda. And although regional intelligence officials downplay that assertion, they are worried that Abu Sayyaf could become what...
...British also employ a tight-lipped approach, refusing last week even to confirm media reports, based mostly on U.S. and Pakistani sources' information, that suspected alQaeda leader Abu Eisa alHindi had been arrested in Britain. "That's the British style," says Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorism expert at St. Andrews University in Scotland. "Don't talk about it, get on with the job quietly, and leave an aura of mystery." But that style drew criticism from Conservative Party leaders amid media reports that alHindi had been in the final stages of planning an attack on Heathrow Airport. "The British public appears...
...morning, he starts the day by taking two blue tablets, and every night before bed, he takes another, making sure no less than 12 hours have elapsed since the first dose. Since he started taking the pills, he can run faster and longer, and tests of his muscle strength confirm what he already knows: he is getting stronger...
Catalano said that as a matter of policy, HUPD does not confirm the identity of anyone not arrested...