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...biggest police investigation in British history has already unearthed a number of links between the bombers and al-Qaeda, which counterterrorism officials fear may have other cells standing by. Police and intelligence services around the world have joined the hunt. On Friday, Egyptian authorities detained Magdy el-Nashar, a biochemist trained at Leeds University who left Britain at least a week before the attacks; he may have had contacts with the Leeds bombers, though he denies having any involvement in the plot...
...heroin dealer peddling poison on the street corner," she told reporters after his sentencing. Prosecutors said Hurwitz prescribed "obscene" amounts of medicine to patients he knew were addicted to cocaine and other drugs. As for the DEA's other investigations and prosecutions, "We're not on a witch hunt," Tandy told TIME. "We are very careful in our investigations. More than 600,000 doctors are registered to prescribe controlled substances. There are a very small number of bad apples." Her agency, she says, has stepped up its investigations because of an "explosion" of illegal-prescription-drug abuse. "People are dying...
...financed them? Who trained them? Who encouraged them?" The biggest police investigation in British history has already unearthed a number of links between the bombers and al-Qaeda, which counterterrorism officials fear may have other cells standing by. Police and intelligence services around the world have joined the hunt. On Friday, Egyptian authorities detained Magdy el-Nashar, a biochemist trained at Leeds University who left Britain at least a week before the attacks; he may have had contacts with the Leeds bombers, though he denies having any involvement in the plot...
...suggested, for Fitzgerald to have interviewed the President and Vice President, to have threatened Cooper with prison time if he didn't testify and to have insisted that New York Times reporter Judith Miller go to jail for contempt of court when she refused to. Much about Fitzgerald's hunt is still a secret: in the court ruling demanding that the reporters reveal who leaked Plame's name, several pages were blacked out for national-security reasons...
...CNOOC was back in the hunt, with a gold-plated army of advisers behind it. Besides Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan, the company had hired Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, one of Washington's pre-eminent lobbying firms, as well as the same media consulting company that has worked for George W. Bush's two presidential campaigns. Finally, with his board's backing, Fu on June 22 announced its $18.5 billion all-cash bid for Unocal. "It's the superior offer and I believe we'll prevail," he told TIME in early July. His advisers insist that's not bravado...