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...attack helicopters. Unlike the Fallujah battle, Tall 'Afar raged mostly unseen, with accounts of the fighting limited largely to the reports of U.S. and Iraqi officials in Baghdad, who declared that the onslaught had succeeded in driving out the bands of rebels--local units commanded by al-Qaeda kingpin Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi--from their latest safe haven. But almost as soon as the offensive ended, the cycle of mayhem started anew: two days after the capture of al-Qaeda's stronghold in Tall 'Afar, al-Zarqawi unleashed a retaliatory wave of 11 suicide bombings in Baghdad, killing more than...
...Spanish authorities detained about 30 North Africans connected with a terrorist cell that was planning to attack Spain's national court in Madrid. This June, police arrested 16 terrorism suspects across Spain, including 11 who were allegedly recruited for suicide missions in Iraq and have ties to Iraq terrorism kingpin Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi...
...ARRESTED. HAJI BASHIR NOORZAI, 44, Afghan narcotics trafficker called a "drug kingpin" by U.S. President George Bush last June; for allegedly smuggling 500 kg of heroin worth more than $50 million into the U.S.; in New York City. U.S. prosecuting attorney David Kelley said Noorzai was involved in a 14- year "unholy alliance" with Afghanistan's former Taliban leaders, trading drugs and weapons for government protection. Noorzai, who faces 10 years to life in prison if convicted, pleaded not guilty in a U.S. District Court last Wednesday...
...should have helped restore peace to the city, but instead unleashed mayhem. On Jan. 21, police in the drug-infested Secondigliano neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples arrested Cosimo Di Lauro, a ponytailed 31-year-old suspected of being the new kingpin of a faction of the Camorra, the notorious Naples Mob. Di Lauro was wanted on suspicion of drug trafficking and ordering multiple homicides, including the Jan. 15 broad-daylight slaying of the 47-year-old mother of a member of a rival group. But as news of the bust spread, a crowd of about 400, mostly women, poured...
Throughout the '90s, Murray popped up in small parts in movies as distinct as the raunchy Farrelly brothers' bowling comedy Kingpin, the quirky Tim Burton--directed bio-pic Ed Wood, and Wild Things, a film he succeeded in hijacking despite the heavily marketed presence of a lesbian schoolgirl love scene. The movies were O.K., but Murray was better, and in Rushmore he finally found something worthy of his skill. Anderson conceived the role of the pitiable, contemptible but redeemable Herman Blume specifically for Murray (in part because he loved him in The Razor's Edge). Murray was a revelation...