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...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...
...massive crackdown against criminal elements of the old regime still operating in Serbia's security forces, as well as a broader - and equally overdue - attack on organized crime. Codenamed Operation Sabre, it was the largest police investigation in Serbian history. As police began sending their evidence - literally by the truckload - to the special prosecutor's office, the list of those charged in the assassination lengthened from 15 to 45. An additional 3,500, many of them linked to the Djindjic conspirators, face charges ranging from drug trafficking to murder. The sweep turned up new evidence against Slobodan Milosevic...
...Malay headman to jail or torch a Kenyan village in the privacy of one's own colony; it's quite another to do so in the full glare of TV lights. One unarmed Afghan--or Iraqi--killed by a scared G.I. can have greater political consequences than a truckload of humanitarian...
...Malay headman to jail or torch a Kenyan village in the privacy of one's own colony; it's quite another to do so in the full glare of TV lights. One unarmed Afghan - or Iraqi - killed by a scared G.I. can have greater political consequences than a truckload of humanitarian...
...pilot with a canvas helmet and large goggles over his eyes looking down at me. As the plane headed north toward the mountains, I saw Japan's insignia, the Rising Sun. "How dare they come over and attack our land and country?" I raged to myself. Then a truckload of Marines came over and yelled at me to go home. On the way I saw a couple of Zeros on fire, plunging into the hills over my town...