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...there's more. Among the telephone contacts in Cherifi's electronic organizer, say police, was a number for Abu Doha, an al-Qaeda sympathizer and recruiter now held in Britain and sought by the U.S. for complicity in Ahmed Ressam's plan to blow up Los Angeles airport. Doha is also known to have had regular contact with the Frankfurt cell. Investigators suspect Cherifi may have also received direct instructions from Doha during four trips he made to London in the first seven months of 2000. "Two visits were spent at Baker Street, the other two at Finsbury Park...
...prison fighting extradition - two to France on bomb-plot charges, one to Italy accused of document forgery, and two to the U.S. The Americans want Lotfi Raissi, although early accusations that he helped train four of the Sept. 11 suicide pilots seem to have evaporated. They also want Abu Doha, who lived in London in 1999 and has been accused of being behind a planned bomb attack on Los Angeles airport...
...Will it last? No. The industry will keep defending its turf since drug development is long, costly and uncertain. After Doha, patent-skirters must still meet WTO rules...
...ripple effect of the U.S. anthrax experience spread to Doha, Qatar, where the WTO agreed to a more flexible formula for providing discounted drugs to developing nations dealing with major disease outbreaks. Big drugmakers are still playing hardball, though. Adamant about safeguarding the patent profits that fund drug development, the companies work hard at extending the life of their patents to keep them out of the hands of generic drug makers...
With 1.3 billion new consumers on their side in the WTO, the developing world is less likely than ever to be bullied into submission by Europe and America - in Doha or anywhere else...