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...computer system (circa 1972.) But some highly touted upgrades have fallen short. An effort to establish a common profiling system for suspects was scrapped because the database couldn't recognize that words like Turkish and Turkey meant the same thing. Something has to be done - and soon. The Heidelberg raid demonstrates why. The CID reported the couple to both the Heidelberg police and the BKA, and each agency filled out an investigation request stamped "urgent." The police report got lost in the mail twice - once on its way to the state's attorney's office, and then again...
...infringing the trademark on Microsoft Windows. Police are weighing fresh charges in Germany against a request for extradition to the U.K. (though Murray-Cowan has not been convicted of anything). In an unrelated case, Italy's financial police, the Guardia di Finanza, announced last week it had conducted synchronized raids across nine Italian provinces, closing down an Internet piracy ring with an estimated turnover of over $60 million a year in CDs, DVDs, pornography and high-priced software titles. Investigators say it was one of the largest-ever software piracy busts in Europe. In one instance, police had to trick...
...previously sent help in the form of equipment and training for Yemeni forces to take on extremists in the tribal areas, but with mixed results. Earlier this year, in raid on a village where al-Harthi and others were seeking shelter, government troops were repelled in a fierce firefight that killed 18 Yemeni soldiers and allowed the al-Qaeda men to escape. This time, when U.S. intelligence got al-Hathi in their sights, they chose to do the job by remote...
...saying that federal law allows the feds to seize pot. "During the Clinton years they didn't do this," says Lockyer. "It disappointed me that they would be using precious resources to act like a bunch of bullies." San Jose police chief William Lansdowne was so annoyed by the raid that he withdrew his officers from the local DEA task force, ending 15 years of close work. Even Governor Gray Davis, who has been quiet on the marijuana issue, expressed concern over the feds' bust. A week after the raid, Santa Cruz officials gathered at city hall to supervise public...
...sanctioned by top Chechen commanders, including the well-known Shamil Basayev, according to both Chechen and Russian sources. The same Chechen sources say the rebels' titular leader, Aslan Maskhadov, who distanced himself from the operation, was probably not consulted: most guerrillas feel he is irrelevant. Planning a raid like this takes six to eight weeks, a Chechen close to the guerrillas says. Another Chechen with experience in such operations thinks Movsar's people brought in their weapons from Chechnya since they wouldn't have wanted to undertake an operation like this with new, unproved firearms bought on the Moscow black...