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What's weird about the following scene: Beijing gangsters shove hostages into a car and flee. When the pursuing police fire at their gas tank, blowing it up, the hooligans hustle the captives from the smoldering wreck into a nearby building. A dozen cops in black ski masks race across open ground firing semi-automatic weapons at them, scale the building with ropes, then swing from the rooftop through the windows. After a second gun battle, they subdue the outlaws. It's unclear what has become of the hostages. Later, when asked if police normally open fire on cars...
...worst single attack since Israeli-Palestinian fighting broke out last September, a Palestinian bus driver ploughed into a bus stop at high speed, killing eight and injuring 20. Seven of the dead were Israeli soldiers. Police pursued driver Khalil Abu Olbeh, who tried to flee to Gaza, for 35 km before opening fire, causing the bus to crash. Abu Olbeh, who had worked for the Egged bus company for five years ferrying Palestinian workers between Israel and Gaza, was given clearance to return to his job in Israel just two weeks ago. His family said he has no ties...
...plans. Vivendi Universal and Sony Music are jointly planning to launch a subscription-based online music service by year-end. And there is the problem of getting consumers to pay. Many companies have tried to convert websites from free to fee; consumers generally respond by going from free to flee...
...days, introducing them to prospective buyers in the intervals. In Montenegro and Serbia, several women describe being lined up naked in the hotel room where they were held, in a kind of inspection line for slave shoppers. In Kosovo, women have been warned that if they try to flee they will be identified as Serbs because of their Slavic features and murdered as members of the hated minority...
...American embassy in mid-1996, saying he sought not to receive a visa but to betray his terrorist boss. He said he had been a member of a group in Afghanistan that "wanted to make war against your country," until he stole organizational funds for himself and had to flee for his life. Now he wanted to warn his new protectors that bin Laden's outfit "might try to do something inside the U.S." or "try to make bomb against some embassy...