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Were it not for the gray streak in his mustache, one might never guess that Eddie Olmo is 50 years old. But judging from the scars on his arms and legs, he has lived several lifetimes over, and by all accounts, including his own, he should be dead...
...Olmo's scars - the result of needle pricks, cigarette burns and scrapes - mark more than three decades of getting high on heroin. He says he first tried the drug at 13 and "was practically married to it" by the age of 22: "It became my total love. It was everything to me. I became not just an addict, but a stone-cold junkie." But last year he found a new love - a woman named Gladys, who inspired him to enter rehab. In 2006, Olmo was one of an estimated 22 million Americans with a substance abuse or dependency problem; today...
...fight involves the work of 11 federal agencies, including the State Department, the Justice Department, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Homeland Security. But for all the complexities that come with fighting such a stubborn plague as substance abuse, recovering drug users like Olmo say surveys and statistics can't capture the all-consuming despair of addiction. The war on drugs, he says, "is all about the numbers and money." We're at least now trying to do something about the numbers...
...witness docket, which upsets the smaller parties. "It's important for Aznar to appear before us," says the CiU's Jané. "He was the Prime Minister ultimately responsible for all decisions. It's not good that the parties put limits on our hearings." Judge Juan del Olmo's separate judicial investigation of 3/11 isn't dwelling on politics. The arrest last month in Milan of Egyptian Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed, whose fingerprints were found in the house where the bombs were prepared, may have brought police closer to the top of the network's command structure. As important...
...been Fakhet's final testament, it's hardly the last we'll hear from the terror groups that may have helped him. Here's a look at some of the big questions - answered and unanswered - in Europe's antiterror campaign. Who headed the Spanish cell? Investigative judge Juan del Olmo believes Fakhet, the man on the tape, was the "dynamizing element" of the Spanish cell. Although most of those involved in the 3/11 bombings were Moroccan, he was Tunisian - hence his nickname "El Tunecino." His biography has striking parallels to that of Mohamed Atta, the leader of the Hamburg 9/11...