Hamas Official Caught Smuggling $817,000
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President Mahmoud Abbas has asked the Palestinian attorney general to investigate a senior Hamas official who was caught trying to smuggle &#36;817,000 into the Gaza Strip, a senior presidential adviser said Friday.
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The Justice Department unsealed an indictment Friday accusing a senior Hamas leader and two other men of a 15-year racketeering conspiracy that raised millions of dollars for the militant Palestinian group.
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Mexican federal police arrested a  people smuggler who sneaked illegal immigrants, including  Iraqis and Iranians, into the United States, the  attorney-general's office said on Wednesday.
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U.S. federal agents have arrested a Mexico City businessman wanted in connection with one of the Western Hemisphere's largest trafficking rings for the main chemical ingredient in methamphetamine.
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Israel on Tuesday captured a top Hamas militant accused of ordering and planning suicide bombings that killed 55 Israelis, the military said.
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Mexican federal police captured suspected drug trafficker Gilberto Higuera Guerrero, a fugitive in Mexico and the US, which had a $2 million State Department reward out for information leading to his arrest.
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WASHINGTON - A Hamas leader and two other suspected members of the Palestinian militant group were indicted on charges they participated in a lengthy racketeering conspiracy to provide money for terrorist acts in Israel, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced Friday.    The three activists allegedly used bank accounts in the United States to launder millions of dollars to support Hamas, which the U.S...
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The Assets Recovery Agency seizes more than Â£8m of possessions from the brothers of an alleged fuel smuggler.
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Former secretary sentenced to eight years over plot to sell secret formula.
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Witnesses say a senior member of the Palestinian security services has been kidnapped by unidentified gunmen in the Gaza Strip. The official is identified as Mohammad al-Batrawi, head of the financial surveillance
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On a Gaza street corner, unemployed construction worker Mohammed Mikdad peddled $3,000 worth of diesel fuel he bought in Egypt after last week's border breach, hoping to make enough profit to feed his family until summer.
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Palestinian gunmen kidnapped a top security official they accused of corruption and held him for several hours in the Gaza Strip on Thursday in a fresh challenge to President Yasser Arafat amid a wave of unrest.
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NABLUS, West Bank -- Israel yesterday released the Palestinian deputy prime minister, the highest-ranking of more than 30 officials in the Hamas-led government jailed as part of a crackdown on the Islamic militant group.
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Hamas gunmen seized control of the Gaza Strip's border crossing with Egypt on Thursday in a ferocious gunbattle with Fatah-allied border guards after Israel blocked the Hamas prime minister from crossing with tens of millions of dollars in aid.
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Palestinian gunmen kidnapped a top security official in the Gaza Strip on Thursday in a fresh challenge to President Yasser Arafat's rule amid a wave of unrest.
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HOUSTON, Sept. 11 -- A man convicted of participating in the nation's deadliest human-smuggling attempt was sentenced Monday to more than 23 years in prison.
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FBI and Department of Homeland Security officers have arrested an Egyptian man who allegedly ran a business from a hot dog cart on 17th and L streets NW that provided American brides for Middle Eastern men seeking green cards, officials said yesterday.