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...That may be Abu Salem's last connection with Bollywood films for a while?aside from watching them on prison TV. On Sept. 18 Interpol arrested Abu Salem in Lisbon, and earlier this month a New Delhi court issued a non-bailable warrant charging him with running a crime syndicate. Oh, and the U.S. government wants to chat with him about his possible link to al-Qaeda...
...trace known pedophiles has helped law enforcement agencies to coordinate their efforts globally. "We've now got software we can use with an image database that can compare details in new child porno-graphy to determine if it matches previous material," says Anders Persson, a criminal intelligence officer with Interpol in Lyons, France. "The software can compare settings, furniture, rooms and body parts of people in the pictures?including those of known pedophiles?and match them with material that has already been traced back to their origins. When you start seeing the same places and settings in new images...
...three separate hands, according to a scholar who examined the document? The address it gives, Wetan Nusukan, doesn't exist, though Nusukan does, a village notorious for its drinking and gambling?not the usual pastimes for Islamic fundamentalists. Either evil has got a lot more stupid, or as an Interpol officer in Indonesia says, 'This was most likely done to keep the police busy'?perhaps by a branch of Indonesia's fractious military intelligence or by an outside provocateur. True or not, the plot failed to materialize and Dec. 4 passed without incident. Note for next time: terrorists usually...
RUSSIA They Seek Him Here Even as Russian Interpol spokesman Igor Tsiryulnikov was announcing that Victor Bout, wanted by Interpol on charges of arming the al-Qaeda network, "for sure is not in Russia," Bout was giving a live interview to Ekho Moskvi radio, just a short distance from the Kremlin. Bout, who runs his air-cargo empire from the United Arab Emirates, denied allegations of illegal arms trafficking in the interview and confirmed that he "never had any problems traveling across Russia...
Some governments have attempted to regulate or prevent the sale of antiquities. So has the International Commission of Museums, which publishes a Red List of African archaeological objects particularly at risk of looting. None have had much success. Interpol, the international police organization, estimates that the illicit trade in cultural property is worth $4.5 billion a year worldwide, up from $1 billion a decade ago. Africa accounts for 10% of this black market, and its share is growing. "It's a fantastically big problem," says Omotoso Eluyemi, director general at Nigeria's National Commission for Museums and Monuments (N.C.M.M...