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Peshawar, June 2, 2011, an international security alert, has been issued by INTERPOL about the 417 dangerous prisoners, including members of the Taliban, who escaped from an Afghan prison. In security alert Interpol said that Pakistan and Taliban are claimed the responsibility of escaping of prisoner from prison. More then 105 pages alert Interpol said dhtat during the night of 24 April; the Taliban broke out the prisoners from the Sarposa prison in Kandahar through a tunnel constructed from outside the prison perimeter fence into the prison interior. INTERPOL said the jailbreak constituted a major threat to global security. At...

Interpol has issued a global alert to warn police forces to be on the lookout for Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and 15 of his closest supporters. The 'orange notice' provides details of the UN sanctions imposed on Colonel Gaddafi, the dictator's family and other senior members of the government to 188 law-enforcement agencies across the world. Interpol hopes that alerting police forces will help to ensure Colonel Gaddafi and his inner circle will be unable to flout their travel bans and the assets freeze six of the group have been subjected to.

TUNIS (AFP) – Interpol issued an arrest warrant for Tunisia's toppled president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali as protests demanding a clean break with the past mounted ahead of a major cabinet revamp due Thursday. The cross-border police agency said that member states, including Saudi Arabia where Ben Ali fled, were asked to "search, locate and provisionally arrest Mr Ali", pending a formal extradition request from Tunis. The warrant applied to Ben Ali and six family members, including his unpopular wife Leila Trabelsi, the statement said. Ben Ali, his wife and other members of his once all-powerful family are accused...

The Frontline Club in London is the kind of place where war correspondents and investigative reporters mingle with admirers and wannabes, fired by a shared passion for exposing government spin, revealing the truth — and fine dining. So when WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange found himself at the center of an international firestorm over the website's publication of leaked U.S. diplomatic cables, he knew where he would be well-fed and, more importantly, safe. Amid calls for Assange's assassination or prosecution under espionage laws and condemnation from U.S. commentators like Sarah Palin — who dubbed him "an anti-American operative with blood on...

The international manhunt for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in a sex-crime investigation in Sweden apparently stems from a condom malfunction. Assange's London attorney, Mark Stephens, told AOL News today that Swedish prosecutors told him that Assange is wanted not for allegations of rape, as previously reported, but for something called "sex by surprise," which he said involves a fine of 5,000 kronor or about $715. Assange is the subject of an international manhunt, as a result of Interpol issuing a "red notice," a warrant indicating the person should be arrested with a view to extradition. "We don't even know what...

As if Interpol didn’t have its hands full with the global search for Wikileaks leader Julian Assange, the agency will soon be tasked with transmitting a Nigerian arrest warrant for former vice president Dick Cheney. This seemingly fanciful international incident could quite easily become a serious domestic headache for the Obama administration. Officials in the African nation want to try Cheney for his alleged role in a bribe scandal in which Halliburton-owned company KBR gave $180 million to Nigerian officials between 1994 and 2004 in exchange for lucrative natural gas contracts. Cheney was KBR’s CEO between 1995 and 2000, when...

CNN) -- Interpol, at the request of a Swedish court looking into alleged sex crimes from earlier this year, has put WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on its most-wanted listed. The Stockholm Criminal Court two weeks ago issued an international arrest warrant for Assange on probable cause, saying he is suspected of rape, sexual molestation and illegal use of force in August incidents. Sweden asked Interpol, the international police organization, to post a "Red Notice" after a judge approved a motion to bring him into custody. The "Red Notice" is not an international arrest warrant. It is an advisory and request,...

Interpol has issued an arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on sex charges. The Australian is suspected of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion in an investigation that stems from his encounters with two women during a visit to Sweden in August. Assange has denied the allegations and insisted his sexual relations with the women were consensual. A veteran computer hacker, Assange founded WikiLeaks in 2006. It has published almost 500,000 secret U.S. documents about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Court documents filed by the prosecutor show Assange is suspected

The WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, is tonight facing growing legal problems around the world, with the US announcing that it was investigating whether he had violated its espionage laws. Assange's details were also added to Interpol's worldwide wanted list. Dated 30 November, the entry reads: "sex crimes" and says the warrant has been issued by the international public prosecution office in Gothenburg, Sweden. "If you have any information contact your national or local police." It reads: "Wanted: Assange, Julian Paul," and gives his birthplace as Townsville, Australia. Friends said earlier that Assange was in a buoyant mood, however, despite the...

Interpol pledges war on environmental crime AFP – Interpol President Khoo Boon Hui addresses the opening of the 79th session of the Interpol General Assembly … .– Mon Nov 8, 3:28 pm ET DOHA (AFP) – Interpol on Monday adopted a resolution unanimously pledging support to back the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) and to fight environmental crime. "One couldn?t have asked for a better result," the secretary general of CITES, John Scanlon, said in gas-rich Qatar where the resolution was adopted. "The endangered fauna and flora of the world cannot be safeguarded without you, without the...

SNIPPET: "Search at Grundy County plant called part of ongoing probe" SNIPPET: "But a source said the owner of the plant, which processes lamb and goat, was taken into custody at his home in Chicago. Documents and records were taken from the plant and from a Chicago travel agency on West Devon Avenue, also owned by the same person, the source said."

Interpol, the international law enforcement cooperation organization with 188 member states, has explicitly warned Americans to not provoke terrorists this September 11th, the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the United States mainland by the Muslim terrorist group al Qaeda.The warning was made as part of a statement requested by Pakistan that was issued Thursday by Interpol regarding the global threat of violent reaction by Muslims to the planned burning of Korans this Saturday by a small, formerly obscure Christian church in Gainesville, Florida that is seeking to draw attention to the evil, violent nature of radical Islam. However,...

LYON, France – INTERPOL has today issued a global alert to its 188 member countries following the request of Pakistan’s Minister of the Interior, and its own determination, that if the proposed Koran burning by a pastor in the US goes ahead as planned, there is a strong likelihood that violent attacks on innocent people would follow. Minister Rehman Malik personally contacted INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble to engage the world police body’s assistance in warning law enforcement of the increased terrorist threat if plans reported by the media to burn the holy book were carried out on Saturday’s...

SNIPPET: "South African police say they have arrested four men in the capital, Pretoria, for attempting to sell what they describe as an industrial nuclear device to undercover officers. The men - all South Africans - were arrested Friday at a Pretoria gas station, where they attempted to sell the device for about $6 million. Police say Interpol was also involved in the operation."

(Reuters) - A man suspected of being the 11th member of a U.S. spy ring allegedly working for Russia has been arrested and released on bail in Cyprus, police said on Tuesday. Robert Christopher Metsos, 55, was arrested at Cyprus's Larnaca airport as he tried to leave the island for Budapest early on Tuesday, police said. A magistrate released Metsos on bail of 20,000 euros ($24,410) bail to reappear in court within 30 days, when an extradition hearing will start. "Based on the (Interpol) red notice we received, he is wanted for money laundering and espionage," police spokesman Michalis Katsounotos...

A private investigator who helped build an extortion case against Joran Van der Sloot says the young Dutchman should have been arrested before he went to Peru. Bo Dietl says FBI agents recorded a meeting last month in Aruba where Van der Sloot requested money from a lawyer for the family of Natalee Holloway in exchange for information about her 2005 disappearance.

"I would really like MY congressman to tell us why NATO has been coming from Bush International Airport, Houston & driving to an unknown place. Why are they here & why can't I get an answer fro Ted Poe or Pete Olsen?" This quote is actually the Facebook status on David Smith's page and I thought it was interesting as were the comments. Now, I'm curious and trying to find out if any Freepers have more information on this or if this is all just bogus... I am especially interested in the one comment about the NATO trucks in PA...

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As if we needed another reason to be angry at the ongoing misuse of our taxpayer dollars, here is a candidate for most infuriating example of the year. A program partially funded by your tax dollars is being used to hunt down anti-regime Iranian dissidents. . . . in Los Angeles. At the behest of the terrorist President Mahmoud Ahmadenijad's regime, we allow Interpol to place Red Notices on heroes in America who seek peaceful change in Iran. A huge Iranian immigrant community exists in Southern California. I have known a number of them and they are great folks. Many...

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- The Iranian regime is notorious for cracking down on dissent inside Iran. Now Mahmoud Ahmadenijad and the mullahs are targeting dissidents in other countries -- including those in the United States. And they are using an international organization to do it. Shahram Homayoun fled Iran for the United States 19 years ago. He was a marked man in his native country, because of his support for democracy and human rights. Now the regime has finally caught up with Homayoun: not in Tehran, but in Los Angeles. "They have managed to keep me here, and it seems...