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Beginning in December, AZF sent the President and Interior Ministry letters grousing about the state of French society and warning that it had planted bombs along the nation's rail lines and at two other unidentified vulnerable targets. Officials say they were instructed to communicate with the group via personal ads in a newspaper, using the code name "Big Wolf" for AZF and "Suzy" for the ministry. A day after officials posted one such ad, they received the GPS coordinates of a sophisticated bomb that had been planted along a line in central France, which ballistics experts detonated...
...group calling itself AZF that has threatened to bomb the railroads - and two other unidentified targets - unless it is paid a hefty ransom. Officials were instructed to communicate with the group via personal ads in a newspaper, using the code name "Big Wolf" for AZF and "Suzy" for the Interior Ministry. A day after one such ad was posted, they received the GPS coordinates of a sophisticated bomb planted along a line in central France, which ballistics experts detonated. Last week French officials tried to deliver the equivalent of €4.2 million AZF had demanded in exchange for the location...
...clear who is behind the violence--foreign terrorists, loyalists of the former ruling party, a combination of the two--it's certain they have Baghdad's finest in their sights. More than 600 Iraqi cops have been killed since the beginning of the U.S. occupation, the Ministry of Interior estimates, exceeding the number of U.S. soldiers who have lost their lives (547 since March 20). One tantalizing possibility is that al-Qaeda may be fueling the attacks. In mid-January, U.S. officials intercepted a letter they believe was written by al-Qaeda operative Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, who is thought...
...prominent member of Saddam's ruling Baath Party. Dhahir was arrested in the man's place. He spent 17 days in jail, was demoted and got transferred 300 miles south to the city of Basra. (His arrest, he says, was ordered by then Minister of Interior Muhammad Zimam Abd al-Razaq, who on Feb. 15 was arrested by Iraqi police...
...model--the Spark--that didn't hit the Chinese market until December. PSA Peugeot Citroen, the French maker of the successful Citroen sedan in central China, faces a similar problem. A local producer called Shanghai Maple introduced a model that looks startlingly like the Citroen: same body, same interior, even the same way of tooting the horn from the turn-signal toggle. "It's exactly the same as the Citroen except half the price," boasts Liu Xiaojun, a Shanghai Maple dealer in Beijing. Citroen suspects that Shanghai Maple poached its suppliers and says it is considering legal action...