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...Armed with the report, Blair visited President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, President Pervez Musharraf in Pakistan and Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee in New Delhi to reinforce their support for international moves against bin Laden. Musharraf affirmed Pakistan's belief in the evidence of the U.S. dossier and was offered an aid package and military support in return. U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld set out on a tour of the Middle East, touching down in Saudi Arabia, Oman and Egypt for consultations before moving on to Uzbekistan, which agreed to allow U.S. forces to use one of its airbases...
...labrynthine depths of old Delhi, where the lanes are too narrow even for a rickshaw, men drink tea and chat in shabby offices. Nobody seems to be doing any work, until the phone rings. Then, numbers are furiously scribbled, followed by some busy dialing and whispered instruction. Although it's far from obvious in the innocuous setting, these men are moving money - to exporters, drug traffickers, tax evaders, corrupt politicians. And terrorists...
...smoke-filled, empty office in Delhi, Ali - who would not give his real name - explains his trade. "All it needs is a good network of trustworthy people," he explains. "If today you want to me to arrange a delivery of cash anywhere in the world - Hong Kong, Johannesburg, New York, Paris - it will be done in, maximum, eight hours...
...move money to New York, for instance, Ali will accept payment in Indian rupees from a client in Delhi. Then he'll call associates in Dubai, who in turn contact their man in New York. The client in Delhi is given a code, usually the numbers from a currency note, which is passed on to the recipient. When the phone rings in New York, both messenger and recipient will read back alternate digits from the password. Identity thus established, the recipient will be paid in dollars...
...Still, capping a 24-hour period during which a Greyhound bus crashed in Tennessee after a Croatian man slashed the driver's throat, and Indian commandos stormed a grounded airliner in New Delhi only to discover that its 'hijacking' was a hoax, it's hardly surprising that the Black Sea air disaster raised fears of terrorism. After all, the flight originated in Israel and most of its passengers were Israeli. The crew of a nearby Armenian Airlines plane reported seeing an explosion aboard the doomed plane, before it spun down into the sea. And Russian and Ukrainian media have been...