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...French say Arif, a veteran of Afghan and Chechen camps, is implicated in a foiled December 2000 plot to bomb the Christmas market outside Strasbourg Cathedral. Arif's alleged role involved recruiting, organizing and oversight. French antiterror magistrates Jean-Louis Bruguière and Jean-François Ricard are also holding Arif for alleged similar involvement with a Chechen-trained group arrested outside Paris in December 2002 that is suspected of planning a chemical-bomb attack. "Arif's activities and associates span from Azerbaijan to England ," the French official says. "Getting hold of him is very big." Nuclear Rebuke...
...aeronautics - the plummeting sales are no laughing matter. (There has been no drop in sales for champagne or cognac, which aren't as prone to replacement by New World competitors.) No wonder the managing board of the Federation of Wine and Spirits Exporters decided that its president, Patrick Ricard, would write a discreet letter to Chirac this week. "We don't want to get in the debate about politics," says Latour, "just sensitize him to the fact that we're having trouble selling our wine." Diplomacy, the French like to say, is sovereign; commerce ranks somewhere below. And angry wine...
...predictions that Scotch would be washed away by a tidal wave of vodka and other trendy tipples have clearly proved premature, the threat remains. Can whisky fight back? It seems to be limbering up. Last year's partition of the Seagram drinks empire by Britain's Diageo and Pernod Ricard of France means that the big three - Diageo and Pernod Ricard, plus Allied Domecq - now account for 57% of global sales. Although global super brands like Diageo's J&B (the world's top-selling Scotch), Allied Domecq's Ballantine's and Pernod Ricard's Chivas Regal will inevitably kill...
...consolidation trend is starting to appear outside the U.S., although somewhat unevenly. Europe has been slow to shed centuries of vineyard traditions, but the New World producers, especially the Australians, have been expanding aggressively. Four companies--Southcorp Wines, B.R.L. Hardy, Orlando Wyndham (owned since 1989 by Pernod Ricard) and Beringer Blass Wine Estates (Foster's)--now account for 74% of the wine exported from Down Under, according to Macquarie Resource Equities...
...purposes and, even to this day, by investments in companies and real estate made with bin Laden's own sizable fortune. In any event, for local operations, terrorist cells are quite skilled at living off the environment. "Many Islamist terror plots in Europe and North America," says Jean-Francois Ricard, one of France's top antiterrorism investigators, "were self-financed through criminal activity--mainly stolen-car trafficking and, above all, credit-card fraud." When Kamel Daoudi, a French alleged al-Qaeda terrorist, was arrested in Britain last year, he had more than 100 forged credit cards...