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...Fallujah inadvertently or were on a mission gone awry. Even by Pentagon standards, military officials were fuzzy about the exact nature of the Blackwater mission; several officers privately disputed the idea that the team was escorting a food convoy. Another officer would say only the detail was escorting a shipment of "goods." Several sources familiar with Blackwater operations told TIME that the company has in some cases abbreviated training even for crucial missions in war zones. A former private military operator with knowledge of Blackwater's operational tactics says the firm did not give all its contract warriors in Afghanistan...
...Abdullah's government and Washington disagree sharply on the importance of the materials traced to Malaysia: 14 centrifuge components manufactured outside Kuala Lumpur by a subsidiary of publicly listed engineering group Scomi Berhad. In a speech last week, U.S. President George W. Bush called the parts?the last shipment of which was seized en route to Libya last October?"advanced...
...while a prominent Russian bell-ringer told the St. Petersburg Times last year that the University should foot the bill for returning the bells, church leaders have been more moderate and have talked about raising their own funds to finance the bells’ shipment...
...shop was closed down by police in July and the owners, Petar Pavlov and Georgy Panev, were arrested, charged with the production of counterfeit bills and released after four days. Their case is still pending. Yet in November, Bulgarian border police seized another shipment of €79,500 worth of high-quality €50 notes (together with 138 false E.U. passports) allegedly printed at the same shop and destined, they say, for the E.U. Bulgarian forgers are among the most active in Europe, but they are not alone. Across Eastern Europe - and recently in the West as well - skilled forgers...
Nevertheless, isolated victories do occur, as in the case of some of the figurines looted from Empress Dou's tomb. By February 2002, the Xi'an police had caught Wang Cangyan, a local dealer who oversaw the shipment of dozens of Empress Dou's figurines to Hong Kong, sneaking them through customs checkpoints by hiding them inside a truckload of new ceramics. Wang told the Xi'an police the name of a Hong Kong shop to which he had sold 32 statuettes...