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Terror Suspect Escapes in Pakistan
Associated Press with CBS News ^ | December 15, 2007
Posted on 12/15/2007 3:12:25 PM PST by yorkie
Rashid Rauf, a British suspect in an alleged plot to blow up trans-Atlantic jetliners, escaped from police custody in Pakistan on Saturday, officials said.
Rauf escaped after appearing before a judge at a court in the capital, Islamabad, said Khalid Pervez, a city police official.
Pervez said Rauf managed to open his handcuffs and evade two police guards who were taking him back to jail in the nearby city of Rawalpindi.
“We do not know how he escaped. But we do know he has escaped and the two policemen have been taken into custody for negligence,” Pervez told The Associated Press.
Federal Interior Secretary Kamal Shah said he had been informed of the escape, but said he had no details.
The British government this week denied media reports that Rauf was to be extradited from Pakistan as part of a secret deal involving the arrest in Britain of two suspects wanted by Pakistan.
“I don’t know anything - I’m shocked,” Rauf’s father, Abdul Rauf, told The Associated Press by telephone from Birmingham, 200 miles (321 kilometers) north of London.
Rauf, who also has a Pakistani passport, was arrested by Pakistani intelligence agents in August on a tip from their British counterparts.
He has been described as a key suspect in a purported plot to blow up jetliners flying from Britain to the United States, which prompted a major security alert at airports worldwide and increased restrictions on carry-on items.
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MS-13 gangster caught on ranch near Laredo [South Texas]
LAREDO MORNING TIMES ^ | 12/15/2007 | ZACHARY FRANZ
Posted on 12/15/2007 5:59:56 PM PST by SwinneySwitch
Border Patrol agents arrested a member of the violent Mara Salvatrucha gang early Wednesday morning, said Greg Salinas, a Border Patrol spokesman.The gang member, a 37-year-old Salvadoran man, has a long criminal history in the U.S. and has been deported twice before, Salinas said.
Agents from the Laredo North station caught the man, whose name was not immediately available, on a ranch near Mines Road at about 2 a.m. on Saturday, Salinas said. He was with several other people who were also illegally entering the country.
The man had tattoos identifying him as a member of the gang. Agents confirmed his identity through fingerprints, and found that he has served time in prison in the U.S. for burglary, Salinas said. The man was last deported in 2003, Salinas said.
A third conviction for illegally entering the country is punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
The Mara Salvatrucha gang, commonly known as MS-13, originated in El Salvador and consists primarily of natives of that country. Most of the gang members caught by Border Patrol belong to that group, Salinas said.
In the 2007 fiscal year, which began Oct. 1, 2006, and ended Sept. 30, 2007, Border Patrol Agents arrested 65 people who were identified as gang members, Salinas said. Of those, 35 were believed to be members of the MS-13 gang, he said.
Since Sept. 30, there have been 30 suspected gang members arrested in this sector, with 20 of those thought to belong to the MS-13 gang.
“We consider them a criminal organization – that’s how big they are,” he said.
(Contact reporter Zachary Franz at 728-2582 or by e-mail at zfranz@lmtonline.com)
The Ogilvie Crescent site was evacuated early on Friday morning.
The Fire Service cleared the site after it was found that the inner packaging was intact and no radioactive material had leaked.
Four staff members who were exposed to the package were cleared after a medical assessment by Saint John ambulance officers.
The airline says its security staff and occupational health and safety specialists are investigating.
Mixup with oxygen on Australian airline
A mix up with gas tanks resulted in Australia's flagcarrier, Qantas, having to check 51 planes to ensure all had emergency oxygen on board. The mistake was reported to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau several months ago after nitrogen was pumped into emergency oxygen tanks at Melbourne Airport.
A spokesman for the bureau says the mix up was rectified immediately and no planes left the ground with toxic gas on board.
Qantas is carrying out its own investigation into the matter.