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...million). The town is torn by conflict between rival factions of Mohajir Muslim migrants from India, between the terrorists and the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, and between rival groups of Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims. Add to that a booming heroin trade, a kidnap-for-ransom industry and a mountain of weapons left over from the 1979-89 Afghanistan war. The result: 1,200 murders in the past year, making Karachi one of the deadliest cities in the world. (In New York City, where 7.5 million live, 1,600 people were murdered last year.) "You've got people...
Here's the plot: short of cash but endowed with a wealth of computer skills, a clever employee is able to reach inside the boss's private data base and ``kidnap'' invaluable company secrets by locking them with a sophisticated encryption program. She then sends an anonymous electronic ransom note demanding a wire transfer of $3 million to a blind account in the Cayman Islands -- or the boss's proprietary data will be lost forever...
...only transmit child-pornography images but also have been known to use the Net to make assignations with youngsters. As for homicide, while it's hard to imagine that someone could actually be killed online, police in a Pennsylvania murder- kidnapping case found critical evidence, including a ransom note, on the defendant's computer. The computer can also be a tempting conduit for anonymous threats; the Secret Service tracked down one perpetrator who sent a threat to President Clinton's well-known E-mail address...
...Womack, who is also a part-time student at Northeastern, stole from their Library book collection, allegedly tried to extort money from the school, and also threatened to blow up a bank if ransom money were not left for him at Widener Library. In addition, he sent anonymous letters to Widener Library and Northeastern's Snell Library saying that if they did not fire their Jewish employees, he would bomb their buildings...
...past four years, Womack, a part-time library employee from 1990 to 1992, has stolen books from Northeastern University, tried to extort money from that university and threatened to blow up a bank if ransom money was not left for him at Widener, according to police. He also sent letters saying he would blow up libraries at Northeastern and at Harvard if they did not fire all their Jewish employees...