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...ARRESTED. HAJI BASHIR NOORZAI, 44, Afghan narcotics trafficker called a "drug kingpin" by U.S. President George Bush last June; for allegedly smuggling 500 kg of heroin worth more than $50 million into the U.S.; in New York City. U.S. prosecuting attorney David Kelley said Noorzai was involved in a 14- year "unholy alliance" with Afghanistan's former Taliban leaders, trading drugs and weapons for government protection. Noorzai, who faces 10 years to life in prison if convicted, pleaded not guilty in a U.S. District Court last Wednesday...
...SENTENCED. ABDUL AZI HAJI CHIMING, MUHAMMAD YALALUDIN MADING and SMAN ESMA EL, alleged members of the militant Jemaah Islamiah (J.I.) organization; for plotting to bomb the U.S. and British embassies in Cambodia, to life in prison; in Phnom Penh. The three men denied any involvement with the plot or the terrorist group, saying they had met Hambali?allegedly J.I.'s former operations chief?while working for a Saudi Arabian-funded charity that helped poor Cambodian Muslims. Hambali and two other foreigners, identified as Rousha Yasser and Ibrahim, were tried and sentenced in absentia...
...understood that filming in Afghanistan would be a risky undertaking. Only a few months earlier, the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan had shaken the world of journalism. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the filming commenced amid chaos: the day before their team landed in Afghanistan vice-president Haji Qadir was assassinated, and the crew’s first twenty-four hours in Kabul were punctuated by multiple bomb threats...
...hotel sector seems to be heating up. Saudi investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is in talks to buy London 's Savoy Hotel for at least $360 million. Ian Schrager has FOR SALE signs up at two London sites, the swanky Sanderson and the St. Martins Lane Hotel. Stelios Haji-Ioannou's easyGroup is launching a chain of no-frills easyHotels in early 2005. And Simon Woodroffe - the man behind the YO! Sushi conveyor-belt eateries - is opening Yotel, cramming luxury into tiny, 10-sq-m rooms, inspired by Japan 's "capsule" hotels, for $135 a night. "It's budget chic...
...forces on the trail of Osama bin Laden and the leaders of the Taliban in late 2001 didn't worry much about elderly, pious-looking men like Haji Juma Khan. A towering tribesman from the Baluchistan desert near Pakistan, Khan was picked up that December near Kandahar and taken into U.S. custody. Though known to U.S. and Afghan officials as a drug trafficker, he seemed an insignificant catch. "At the time, the Americans were only interested in catching bin Laden and [Taliban leader] Mullah Omar," says a European counterterrorism expert in Kabul. "Juma Khan walked...