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...more than 2 million books and instructional tapes were pulped or crushed by steam rollers last week. And there was also the astonishing news that some of the arrested Falun Gong members were top Communist Party officials. On Thursday, Beijing put Li, 48, on a wanted list and requested Interpol's help in apprehending him. Li has lived in the New York City area since February 1998; a spokesperson for Falun Gong said the State Department assured them Li was safe as long as he stayed...
...Martin Frankel coming home already? The fugitive financier, who on May 5 allegedly absconded with more than $300 million of his clients? money, may have consulted the wrong astrological chart this time. According to the Hartford Courant, Frankel is believed to be in Europe, with Interpol hot on his trail, and ready to talk surrender. The paper says a criminal defense lawyer has contacted federal prosecutors on Frankel's behalf to discuss terms ?- although no one?s saying how close the hunters and the hunted are to a deal...
Born in 1952 in Brezice, Slovenia, the son of a Yugoslav air force colonel, Arkan left the country as a teenager. Moving across Europe for the next 20 years, he racked up a formidable criminal record: his seven outstanding Interpol warrants include armed robbery and other crimes. In the '70s he became affiliated with the Yugoslav authorities, and by the mid '80s he was back in Belgrade, working for the state security service. In the late '80s he became the leader of a Belgrade soccer team's fan club, a group that was transformed into his paramilitary unit...
...safety in that broad, nontraditional power base: it means there is no one head for the Serbs to cut off. It has produced a wide range of K.L.A. leaders, from bloodthirsty terrorists who target civilians to patriots ready to die for their putative country. Some commanders are outright criminals. Interpol cops say parts of the K.L.A. are funded by profits from smuggling along the infamous "Balkan route," the main line for 90% of Western Europe's heroin...
...Through those connections, Reichel got Flodin's Swedish social security number. DiBenedetto's Interpol contact ran it through motor vehicles in Sweden -- and made the discovery that broke the case. In 1994 Flodin had applied for a French driver's license under the name Annika Flodin Mallon...