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The Long Arm of the Law
Denis MacShane 7/25/2009 12:00:00 AM
In the new movie Public Enemies, Johnny Depp plays John Dillinger, the 1930s bank robber and killer who gets hunt-ed down and shot by the newly formed FBI. The key to FBI success was to break down the barriers to cross-state criminal-catching that had previously allowed crooks to skip across state borders and thumb their noses at lawmen constrained by interstate rivalries.
Administration Frustration
Mark Hosenball 10/8/2008 12:00:00 AM
An aggressive Bush administration campaign to block arms sales to Iran has been dealt a series of setbacks by the refusal of some foreign governments to turn over alleged arms dealers arrested in undercover U.S. law enforcement stings.
WAR CRIMES
Capturing Karadžić
7/22/2008 12:00:00 AM
It didn't take long for the hardliners to hit the streets. Shortly after the office of Serbian President Boris Tadic issued a late-night statement announcing the arrest of Radovan Karadžić, scores of young ultranationalists started gathering in Belgrade's main squares. Some drove around town singing jingoistic songs; others insulted and spat at police hastily deployed to keep the peace. "Radovan is a hero," shouted members of the youth movement Obraz as they gathered around the special court building where Karadžić's extradition hearing will take place. "Boris, save Serbia, kill yourself," they yelled in a message to the president.
SOCIETY
Kidnapping Her Own Kids
12/21/2007 12:00:00 AM
On a frigid December night in Canada in 2006, authorities discovered twin American toddlers who had been taken illegally across the border. The boy, Tyler, and girl, Holly, were staying with a woman in her late 40s at a rented townhouse in Ottawa. Kidnapping charges were filed against the woman, Allison Quets, and she was thrown into jail. But this woman was no stranger to the children. She had given birth to them.
WORLD VIEW
Poisonous Relations

In the past eight years, Russia has had serious rows with almost half of the EU'S 27 member states. Contrary to popular opinion that such disagreements are fueled by historic grievances in Eastern Europe, these disputes have affected both longtime members of the EU and new ones; both Russia's neighbors and states farther afield; both those who thought they had good relations with Moscow and those who were happy to admit they were bad. For instance, Russia banned Polish meat in 2005, claiming it was unhygienic; it attempted to charge the German airline Lufthansa special fees for flying over Siberia in 2007; and it allegedly engaged in cyberterrorism against Estonia in May 2007 and against Lithuania in June 2008.
IRAN
Back on the Black Market
Mark Hosenball
Tehran is pushing back against Bush administration efforts to crack down on Iranian agents who buy U.S. military equipment on the black market. In a development that angered and baffled American investigators, Hong Kong authorities recently freed, without explanation, an alleged Iranian operative named Yousef Boushvash, who is wanted by the United States for conspiring to obtain embargoed U.S. military-airplane parts. In a similar incident, Iran accused Britain of surrendering its sovereignty to U.S. intelligence agencies by preparing to extradite a former Iranian diplomat, Nosratollah Tajik, accused of trying to buy night-vision gear for Tehran.