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...journalist was indicted and later pleaded guilty when a judge did not accept that he was sending and receiving over the Net pornographic pictures of children while researching a story about online pedophiles. Operation Avalanche, the investigation that netted Townshend, began in the U.S. in spring 1999 when a postal inspector came across Landslide, a husband-and-wife operation out of Fort Worth, Texas, that offered access to a variety of child-porn websites for $29.95 a month...
...turned out to be the largest commercial child-porn operation ever uncovered. In September 1999 law-enforcement officials raided the operators' house and seized their computers, which held information on about 250,000 paying subscribers worldwide. Postal inspectors, who arrested about 120 of the heaviest users in the U.S., forwarded the Landslide information to Interpol headquarters in Lyons, France. Interpol in turn identified buyers in 60 countries, including 7,272 in Britain. Some 1,200 have been arrested there so far, including Townshend...
...We’re not in the U.S. anymore,” tour guide Davie Palanivelu announced as they entered the lobby, where the United Nations sells stamps for its own postal system...
...inspection, the new portal devices will be routinely applied to all cargo, not just the high-risk kind. Customs is installing the devices at the exit gates of the nation's major seaports and at key traffic choke points, such as international bridges, tunnels, rail crossings and U.S. Postal and private parcel-shipping facilities. One prototype has already been deployed at a busy commercial crossing along the U.S.-Canadian border. More will follow--but to foil terrorists, Customs isn't advertising where or when. And no photos are permitted. --By Elaine Shannon
...Omen The U.S. Postal Service is stockpiling 1.6 million potassium iodide pills to give employees in order to protect them against thyroid cancer in the event of a nuclear attack