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Azhar is not just any militant. Indian police suspect him of organizing the 1999 hijacking of an Indian Airlines flight to secure the release of his brother Maulana Masood Azhar, among other prisoners, from an Indian jail. The two Azhar brothers top India's wanted-terrorist list, but Pakistan brought no charges against Abdul Rauf. Musharraf did vow to keep Masood under house arrest, but staff members at his ornate mansion in Bahawalpur say he is free to travel, give incendiary sermons against the U.S. and collect donations for the Kashmiri insurgency...
...last slide was the usual boiler-plate disclaimer that said the presentation "involves inherent risks and uncertainties." It didn't mention the biggest risk of all: that Ackermann himself soon would end up in court, charged with a serious breach of German company law that could put him in jail for up to five years. That corporate nightmare became a reality on Sept. 19 when a German regional court in Düsseldorf confirmed that Ackermann, 55, would stand trial along with five other German executives in a case tied to the €180 billion takeover of Germany's Mannesmann...
...digital-music sales may rest in the hands of those who, to borrow from the Talking Heads, have developed a healthy fear of music--free music. Says Kyu-Heong Kim, a junior majoring in biology at the University of Texas in Austin: "Who wants to be put in jail or pay some huge fine because you downloaded Justin Timberlake's newest song? It's just too big of a risk." --With reporting by Stefanie Friedhoff/Ann Arbor, Avery Holton/Austin, Naeemah Khabir/Tallahassee, Jessica Reaves/Chicago and Chris Taylor/San Francisco
ARRESTED. Charles Sobhraj, 59, seductive con man and accused serial killer, who has spent more than 20 years in Asian jails but has never been convicted of murder; in Kathmandu. The feral Sobhraj, a half-Indian, half-Vietnamese French citizen, traveled between Europe and Asia in the '60s and '70s picking up Western tourists and drugging and robbing them. By the time Indian police caught up with him in 1976-after he drugged a hotel buffet served to French tourists-he was a suspect in the murder of at least 20 travelers in Afghanistan, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Nepal, Thailand...
Wayland said his client, a native of the Republic of Georgia, spent about five weeks in jail after his arrest before posting bail...