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...years ago, two nephews of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen were accused of involvement in a shootout in a Phnom Penh shopping center. After a brief stretch in jail, the pair was released when a judge ruled there was insufficient evidence to support charges that they possessed guns at the scene of the shooting. Last week, another of the Prime Minister's nephews was on trial, this time accused of manslaughter?and again the case appears to be falling apart. According to police, Nhim Sophea, the 22-year-old son of Hun Sen's sister, was partying with friends...
...Jaish-e-Muhammad was devoted. Official tolerance of these groups, and in some cases assistance to them, continued after Musharraf took power in a 1999 coup. The President was especially supportive of Jaish-e-Muhammad's leader, warrior-cleric Maulana Masood Azhar. When Azhar was released from an Indian jail in a prisoner exchange in December 2000, he was permitted to stage a huge rally in Karachi attended by gun-toting followers. In 2001 Musharraf even tried unsuccessfully to persuade the various Kashmiri guerrilla groups to unite under Azhar...
...Laudeina Salazar, 39, who was decorating her Christmas tree on Dec. 12 when a stray bullet "shot by some thug" passed through her front door and killed her. Bratton's message to gangsters with guns was simple: "You use a gun, we're going to put you in jail--in federal jail. You are going to be 1,000 miles from here--in Utah, where you have no family, no homeboys, no friends and no future." Arrests for all crimes in Los Angeles are up 11% this year...
...guys knew that." Now, he says, cops have been told not to turn a blind eye when their authority is challenged. "We had someone tell a police officer, 'I'll kill you,' last week in front of a group of people," says Griffith. "Now he is in jail. Before, they would have just told him to go back into the house...
...turns out that Tanzi might have had some far less noble impulses too. On Dec. 27, Tanzi was arrested, and he is confined in a Milan jail while Italian prosecutors, joined by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, probe his role in an alleged $8.8 billion fraud that could implicate Parmalat in Europe's biggest corporate scandal ever, easily on a par with those of Enron and WorldCom in the U.S. Parmalat has filed for bankruptcy, and corporate-turnaround expert Enrico Bondi is trying to salvage what he can of the firm, which has 36,000 employees in 30 countries...