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...such a widespread manner. Nearly every rung of society is being terrorized. Truck drivers are assaulted on the roads; leading businessmen have been kidnapped for ransom; journalists have been tortured and murdered; and one of the nation's pre-eminent intellectuals, Humayun Azad, was almost killed in February by a gang of knife-wielding assailants. But the wake-up call for many Bangladeshis came last week, when the bodies of two cloth merchants were found beheaded and mutilated in a forest outside Dhaka. Stunned by the discovery, many traders in the city closed their shops or held rallies to highlight...
...boarding them warily. Last week their government confirmed that its security forces have for the past three months played a cat-and-mouse game with a group that calls itself AZF. The hitherto unknown group has threatened to bomb France's railroads unless the government forks over a hefty ransom...
Last week French officials tried to pay AZF the equivalent of $5.2 million it had demanded for revealing the location of other bombs. But after an attempt to deliver the ransom to a field 65 miles south of Paris failed, French officials dispatched 10,000 workers to inspect the nation's 20,000 miles of tracks. They found nothing. "We're still taking this extremely seriously because we know these people are very organized and intelligent," says a French security official. He says AZF's missives suggest it is an "extreme leftist, perhaps anarchist" group but stops short of calling...
...country's rail system. The government confirmed that its security forces have for the past three months played a cat-and-mouse game with a group calling itself AZF that has threatened to bomb the railroads - and two other unidentified targets - unless it is paid a hefty ransom. Officials were instructed to communicate with the group via personal ads in a newspaper, using the code name "Big Wolf" for AZF and "Suzy" for the Interior Ministry. A day after one such ad was posted, they received the GPS coordinates of a sophisticated bomb planted along a line in central France...
Counterfeiting is our worst enemy. It threatens an image for any work of creation. It is the ransom of success. --YVES CARCELLE, chairman, Louis Vuitton, on the growing number of imitations on the market...