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...small seaside town about an hour north of Barnstable began another unsparing manhunt this month in hopes of solving a three-year-old murder. Police in Truro, Mass., intend to collect the DNA of every one of the town's 790 males. After that, the cops may cast a wider net, reaching neighboring towns. They started by approaching men at Truro's few outposts--the post office, the pizza place, the grocery store--and politely asking each if they could swipe a lollipop-size swab inside his cheek. It's strictly voluntary, and the Truro men can say no. Then...
...December 2003 has escaped from a high-security prison in the port city of Karachi, senior security sources told TIME. The sources said that the escapee, known as Mushtaq Ahmad, "disappeared" after "a security lapse" at the prison around the New Year holiday, prompting a so-far secret nationwide manhunt. The military-controlled regime of Musharraf, who has survived at least three attempts on his life, is expected to investigate whether insiders were involved in Ahmad's escape. Warming Trend CUBA The European Union cautiously welcomed Havana's announcement that it was resuming diplomatic ties with eight E.U. member states...
...Sources tell TIME a suspect detained for conspiring to kill Musharraf has escaped from the custody of state security in the port city of Karachi. According to senior state-security sources in Pakistan, the escapee "disappeared" after a "security lapse" around the New Year's holiday, prompting a nationwide manhunt, kept secret until now. An unpublicized APB signed by a senior intelligence official in Karachi has been issued with three photographs--one showing the fugitive with a beard, another with a mustache and a third clean shaven. The alert, which identifies the escapee as Mushtaq Ahmad, a possible alias...
Stuart was seven months pregnant when she was shot in the head on Oct. 23, 1990. Charles Stuart, her husband, who is white, informed police that the perpetrator was a young black male, setting off a manhunt in the Mission Hill area. It was later discovered that Charles Stuart committed the murder, a revelation that touched off a storm of protest against racial profiling...
...Dargo, about 10 km to the east; or in Ersanoi, just up the road; or even right here in Dyshne-Vedeno itself, within sight of the ruins of his once sumptuous red-brick house, blown up by the Russians in 2000. The Kremlin says it has launched a massive manhunt for Basayev, the Chechen guerrilla leader who has orchestrated a grisly terror campaign that includes, among other atrocities, hijackings, suicide bombings, the 2002 Moscow theater siege and the seizure last month of a school in Beslan, where the final death toll is expected to reach 500. But here in Dyshne...