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Despite the lanyard requirement—and fears of terrorist attacks reignited two weeks ago after an explosion at Yale Law School, which the FBI is still investigating—security for the occasion seemed slightly looser than last year?...
...FBI, the Department of Justice and the SEC have been investigating Stewart since early January 2002, just days after she sold about $228,000 of ImClone stock. It was a decision she made grudgingly, according to testimony given to the SEC by Stewart's broker at Merrill Lynch, Peter Bacanovic, because it meant admitting she was wrong. Bacanovic said he and Stewart had reviewed her entire portfolio in a pre-Christmas session of tax planning and disagreed about what to do with her 3,928 shares of ImClone. "She wanted to hold the stock, and I challenged that by saying...
...global people-smuggling ring; in Hong Kong to the U.S. Better known by her alias "Big Sister Ping," Cheng is accused of masterminding a 1993 attempt to smuggle 300 Chinese to the U.S. on the ship Golden Venture, which ran aground off New York, killing 10 passengers. The FBI says Cheng has smuggled tens of thousands of Chinese into the U.S. and calls her the "mother of all snakeheads...
...Naturally, when the cops were confronted with real, bad guys?terrorists who last year committed a rash of bombings and the kidnapping of American journalist Daniel Pearl?this squeeze-them-until-they-squeal approach got them nowhere. Agents from the FBI brought in for the Pearl case and the U.S. consulate bombing were also less than impressed by such techniques, according to a Western diplomat. A police officer admits that at first his men were also afraid of the extremists, who had informers inside the police force. They were also well equipped, he says, with guns smuggled across the lawless...
...With the FBI's help in monitoring cell-phone calls and e-mails, Yusuf was able to throw an electronic net over the Karachi neighborhoods where terrorists and some of Pearl's kidnappers lurked. "Al-Qaeda isn't like a social club," he says. "They don't have a posted membership list." What he did find was a link between al-Qaeda and two virulent Sunni sectarian groups?Lashkar Jhangvi and Jaish-e-Mohammad?which had trained in Afghan camps alongside Osama bin Laden's holy warriors. The two groups, in turn, were mixed up in the Karachi underworld. Often...