Word: underworld
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...says Shridhar Vagal, who heads the Bombay police's crime department. "Before they know it, they have accepted some help and then they go on making incremental compromises." According to Mahesh Bhatt, writer-producer of this year's hit thriller Raaz: "Some people may have embarrassing connections with the underworld, but most film people are just victims." Apparently, victims of a sustained assault by the underworld. Victims who could end up dead...
Long before 9/11, the title of most dangerous terrorist in the world belonged to Abu Nidal. Unlike Osama bin Laden, he disliked being filmed chatting about his ideology over a Kalashnikov. He almost never emerged from the turbid underworld of international crime, and he had no consistent belief system. He switched allegiances with ease. Governments actually paid him just to leave their people alone. Even so, beginning in 1974, he was responsible for 900 murders in 20 nations, according to the U.S. State Department...
...panel notes that in response to the international body's clampdown, bin Laden's pursers have converted considerable amounts of cash held in banks into gold and diamonds, as well as moving it through the underworld 'hawala' networks that make it almost impossible to trace...
...underworld also provides an ongoing source of finance. European anti-terror officials, particularly in France, have noted that radical Islamist groups, including those linked with al-Qaeda, have over the years built an elaborate criminal infrastructure - relying on low-key logistical operatives rather than their best-trained combatants - that can generate a continuous flow of funds through seemingly apolitical petty crime, such as credit card fraud, car theft and so on. Even if these operatives are caught, they have in many instances been tried, convicted and sentenced to short spells in prison without their terror connection becoming apparent. Of course...
...Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham). Bollywood operates under the vulture eyes of a voracious entertainment press and under the shadow of organized crime. Two years ago, Hrithik's father, director Rakesh Roshan, was shot (though not fatally) after he reportedly refused a "request" for his son to appear in an underworld-financed film...