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...birds, felling livestock, and leaving painful welts on any human skin they contact. Its Latin species name, invicta, means invincible, and so far no affected country has managed to eradicate an infestation of the 2- to 6-mm-long ant. "I hate them," says Keith McCubbin, director of the Queensland Fire Ant Control Centre, which is spending $136 million on a six-year campaign to rid Australia of what he calls "some of the evilest creatures God put on Earth." Last week, the ants were discovered in Hong Kong, probably arriving via southern mainland China, where infestation had gone previously...
...decommissioned Aropa airport near Arawa. Aboard was an Australian associate of Musingku, Jeff Richards, his British security advisor, James Nesbitt, and another businessman, Tom Wavik, who is reported to hold an Australian passport. Richards represents himself as Prince Jeffrey, monarch of the independent state of Magilno, near Rockhampton on Queensland's central coast. In that capacity he claims to have signed a deal with Musingku acting on behalf of Mekamui's financial affairs. The deal grants Magilno a share of Bougainville's asset wealth. Just another, it seems, of the South Pacific's colorful players...
...supporter of the Magilno concept, to set up the link. O'Keefe established a personal friendship with Ona; so much so that he was the only white man invited to the coronation, and was permitted to film it. But on his last attempt to enter the zone, the Queensland web master was stopped at a checkpoint manned by Musingku's men and turned back. O'Keefe says that on a previous visit Richards had signed an activities agreement with Musingku, whom Richards believed had access to millions of dollars in private bank accounts. But when the business deal failed...
...still not been found). But the operation was a model for other state police forces. On Sept. 7, police in Western Australia and the Northern Territory mounted their own raids. Rouse and his team launched a second phase, hunting down men spread out across remote parts of Queensland. Then on Sept. 27, police forces across Australia began arresting suspects in city centers. The targets were so numerous the raids took two days to complete...
...varied backgrounds of the suspects hint at the scale of the problem. Among those arrested was a Queensland man alleged to have been using local children to make his own pornography; also under investigation were four Queensland police officers, one of whom killed himself after being served with a summons. A New South Wales teacher allegedly set up a video camera behind a mirror in a children's changing room; in Victoria the owner of three child-care centers was charged; and in Perth detectives discovered more than 350,000 images and hundreds of videotapes of child pornography...