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...code orange level of terrorist alert announced by the U.S. government last Friday has prompted a nationwide shopping spree on supplies that might be useful in case of a biological or chemical attack...
...could parade satellite images the CIA has of large semitrailers crowned with oversize air vents that indicate the vehicles could house such labs. Also available are photos said to show dump trucks converted into missile launchers. And CIA analysts have drawn up a voluminous list of Saddam's shopping spree for hardware and raw ingredients that they assert are intended for weapons making...
...evaded capture for months in 2000. Their modus operandi was to break into homes using battering rams. Once inside, they killed the inhabitants, frequently castrating male victims with cleavers. They left behind calling cards: cloth masks with eye holes burned out by cigarettes. But the gang's deadly spree was province-wide, and there was insufficient coordination between police forces of the various towns and districts. In addition, the gang confused the police with a surprisingly simple ruse. "The killers changed shoes for each crime," says criminal investigator Wang. "The treads police collected didn't match." By the time...
...buying a snowblower, a barbecue and a couple of lawn mowers in Canada make you a suspected link to al-Qaeda? Michael John Hamdani, 44, became just that after a shopping spree late last October in Brampton, a city west of Toronto. The owners of a shop that he and a friend had patronized believed they had received bogus U.S. traveler's checks and alerted the police. A raid on the homes of Hamdani and his pal turned up an array of big-screen TVs and other luxury goods, $600,000 in forged American Express and Thomas Cook checks...
...price?" Try $5.21 per meter. As a result, ASDA slashed its retail prices in half and upped its annual jeans sales to 1 million, from 174,000. ASDA is acquiring some 2,000 products from Wal-Mart's global network, and its gains might have set off a consolidation spree. Last week, Morrisons, the U.K.'s fifth-largest chain, launched a takeover offer for Safeway, the fourth-largest. ASDA could join the fray. ASDA is making its mark on Wal-Mart, too. ASDA's George brand of apparel is one of the most popular private-label lines in Britain, generating...