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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (21650)	3/18/2002 6:56:34 PM
From: FaultLine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The Masoud assassination displayed Al Qaeda's technique of breaking crimes down into "minimally prosecutable incidents," the U.S. official said. "They might have training in one country, money in another, equipment and documents in a third," the official said. "They worked it beautifully. It's trade-craft." a trade craft... :o( --fl

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (21650)	3/18/2002 7:09:02 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Respond to of 281500

One of the reasons there has been a lot of foot-dragging in judicial reform among the European countries is that politicians in all these countries have profited fully from this (for moving illegal money around notably.) If a large percentage of politicians are not behind something, it just won't happen. The changes have been coming but very slowly. The heightened awareness of the risks of terrorism will no doubt accelerate things just a little. One thing I can't really explain is the lack of cooperation on the part of the British concerning terrorists on their soil. The trial for the perpetrators of the 1995 wave of Paris metro bombings is only just now beginning, even though the ring-leaders have been in custody in the UK for years now, successfully resisting extradition. I have to wonder if it goes beyond simple cleverness on the part of their lawyers.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (21650)	3/18/2002 8:24:59 PM
From: BigBull	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

India moving with a bit more alacrity than our European friends in passing anti-terror legislation: timesofindia.indiatimes.com Responding to criticism of the Bill, law minister Arun Jaitley said an effective law was required to blunt the edge of the terrorist campaign which had claimed more lives than the four full-scale wars the country had fought since Independence. ‘‘In the four wars we lost 45,468 lives, and the toll of terrorism in the past 15 years has been 61,031,’’ he said during the discussion. He added six lakh people had been rendered homeless by terrorism in different parts of the country. The cost of fighting cross-border terrorism, according to him, was an estimated Rs. 45,000 crore. The volume of explosives seized by the security forces from terrorist elements in recent years was a startling 48,000 tonnes, he said. ‘‘With that kind of explosives in terrorist hands every inch of India would have been taken care of,’’ the minister said, claiming an extraordinary situation would require an extraordinary response. --------------------------------------------------------- Perhaps they feel the need of a wee bit more urgency? ;o}