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Seven months after Interpol placed a former head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards on its most-wanted list, the fugitive suspected of state-sponsored terrorism last week traveled freely to Saudi Arabia, where he attended a religious conference hosted by King Abdullah. Mohsen Rezai, wanted by Argentina, is the subject of an Interpol "red notice" -- a request for a provisional arrest with a view to extradition, based on an arrest warrant or court decision. Saudi Arabia is a member state of the international policing organization. It was unclear Monday whether he was still in Saudi Arabia, but his presence was brought to...

NEWARK, N.J. - A rare international alert seeking a man shown in dozens of raw child porn images quickly led to the arrest of a small-time actor, who painted faces at children's parties and performed as "the best Santa Claus anyone has ever seen." Wayne Nelson Corliss told authorities he had sex with three boys in Thailand six years ago, an experience he described as "euphoria," a prosecutor said Thursday at Corliss' first court appearance. The arrest of the bespectacled, gray-haired 58-year-old at his Union City apartment late Wednesday capped a two-day global manhunt, just the second time Interpol has...

PARIS - Police detained a suspected pedophile in New Jersey Thursday, just two days after Interpol made a rare appeal for public help in the international manhunt to catch him, the police agency said. Wayne Nelson Corliss, 58, was detained in Union City, N.J., Interpol said. He is suspected of sexually abusing at least three boys from Southeast Asia thought to have been as young as 6 to 10 years old, the international police agency said. Interpol had asked for the public's help because two years of police investigations had failed to determine the man's identity, nationality and whereabouts. It...

LYON, France - Interpol launched a worldwide appeal to the public Tuesday to help identify a man suspected of sexually abusing young boys from Southeast Asia — hoping the rare move will lead to a quick arrest. It was only the second time that the international police agency has appealed directly to the public for help in identifying a suspected pedophile. An arrest was made shortly after the first time last October. The suspect in the latest case is a white man, shown with gray, thinning hair in photos released by Interpol. He appeared to be in his late 40s...

MARRAKECH, Morocco - Iran's standoff with the West on issues like violence in Iraq and Tehran's nuclear ambitions moved to an unlikely forum Tuesday: Interpol's general assembly. Iranian envoys at the meeting in Morocco accused Israel and the United States of turning the international police agency into a political tool as it considers whether to put five Iranians and a Lebanese man on its most-wanted list. Delegates in Marrakech will vote Wednesday on whether to issue "red notices" for six men allegedly linked to a 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people —...

PARIS - A suspected pedophile sought in a worldwide Interpol manhunt has been identified and is believed to be in Thailand, the international police organization said Monday. The man was allegedly shown sexually abusing 12 young Vietnamese and Cambodian boys, apparently ranging in age from 6 to early teens, in about 200 photographs posted on the Internet. The man's face was disguised in the photos as a digitalized whirl. Using techniques that neither they nor Interpol would discuss, German police recreated an image of the man's face and released four reconstructed photos of him last week. Interpol said more than...

INTERPOL is seeking the help of the public to try to identify this man, photographed sexually abusing children in a series of images posted on the Internet. The photos shown here are from a series of around 200 pictures involving 12 different young boys, believed to have been taken in Vietnam and Cambodia in 2002 or 2003. These pictures have been produced by specialists from Germany’s federal police force, the Bundeskriminalamt, working from originals found on the Internet, which had been digitally altered to disguise the man’s face. Extensive police efforts worldwide to identify the man have so far failed...

Interpol issues arrest warrant against Saddam's daughter Baghdad - Voices of Iraq Friday , 17 /08 /2007 Time 6:00:51 Baghdad, Aug 17, (VOI) – Interpol issued an arrest warrant against Raghad, former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's daughter, upon a request from the Iraqi government. "Raghad Saddam Hussein al-Majid, 38, is wanted by the Iraqi government on several charges of terrorism and crimes against innocent people," according to a statement published on Interpol's official web site and received by the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). The site called on anyone who has information about Raghad's whereabouts to report to...

SAN FRANCISCO--The head of Interpol believes terrorists and other criminals are traveling freely around the globe in ways that police agencies find difficult to track, but he says he knows how to cripple their movements. Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble on Wednesday suggested two solutions: first, airlines should forward passenger data on international flights to Interpol; and second, nations that arrest foreign visitors should share those fingerprints with the international police agency as well. Noble, who is meeting on Thursday with American Airlines to discuss the proposal as a pilot project, said linking databases can help detect people flying on...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's counter-terrorism efforts are "in the wrong century," the head of Interpol said on Monday, accusing it of failing to share information on terrorists and consult a key database of the world police body. The harsh criticism from Interpol boss Ronald Noble may come as an embarrassment to British authorities investigating failed car bomb attacks in London and Scotland last month by suspected Islamist militants from the Middle East and India. Prime Minister Gordon Brown said in a weekend interview that information held by one country on terrorist recruitment should also flow to other countries. Noble said...

BOGOTA, Colombia - Interpol issued an international arrest warrant Tuesday for three Israelis accused of training private armies of Colombian drug cartels and right-wing death squads, authorities said. Yair Klein, Melnik Ferri and Tzedaka Abraham were being sought on charges of criminal conspiracy and instruction in terrorism, said Oscar Galvis, spokesman for Colombia's domestic intelligence agency. The men, who face nearly 11 years in prison if convicted, are accused of helping set up training camps to teach private armies working for drug lords about explosives and high-profile killings. The armies later grew into Colombia's right-wing death squads. Klein, a former...

LONDON (Reuters) - Interpol said on Wednesday it was launching a special task force to tackle a growing problem of pedophiles using fake "modeling" sites on the Internet to gain access to children. The sites do not contain sexually graphic images, but serve as a front, enabling pedophiles to contact the site owners and gain physical access to the so-called child models, or to buy images of the children being abused. "This trend requires the urgent attention of law enforcement, but the significant investigative resources required are simply not available in most national police forces, which is why Interpol is...

Fjordman has pointed out that reported rape rates in Oslo are 6 times the level they are in New York. Comparing crime rates across borders is notoriously difficult, primarily because of the different definitions of different categories of crimes (e.g. is a suicide a murder or not ?), but also because of different approaches to policing: rape reporting to the police varies from country to country and it seems the way the police treat victims has a large impact on the likelihood of reporting. I was curious about the true situation, but unsure what to believe of the official MSM...

LYON, France, July 26, 2006 (AFP) - International police body Interpol said Wednesday it had brought together about 60 experts to discuss ways of fighting the production of fake US dollar banknotes with attention focused on fraud in North Korea. Several sources have indicated that North Korea is at the centre of efforts to manufacture bogus US currency, Interpol said. Discussions about methods to fight the trade took place all day and the experts decided to meet again to carry on their work together. Since 1989, US notes of 50- and 100-dollar denominations worth nearly 50 million dollars (39.5 million...

Damascus: The Syrian government has officially asked interpol to arrest former vice President Abdul Halim Khaddam so he can face charges of treason and corruption. The request states that he should be turned over to Damascus so he can be questioned for charges including inciting a foreign country to attack Syria. Khaddam, who lives in France, gave an interview in December in which he said that Syrian president Bashar Al Assad had threatened former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri just months before he was assassinated. It is unlikely that France will agree to the request as Khaddam has lived...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, 2006 – The International Criminal Police Organization, known as Interpol, issued a worldwide alert yesterday for 23 prison escapees, including 13 convicted al Qaeda terrorists, according to an Interpol news release. The criminals escaped last week from a Yemen jail. They include Jamal al-Badawi, a terrorist convicted of masterminding the Oct. 12, 2000, bombing of the USS Cole in Aden, Yemen, news reports said. Terrorists pulled alongside the anchored Cole and detonated an explosive-loaded boat. The blast killed 17 U.S. sailors and wounded 39 others. The two terrorists in the boat also were killed. Pentagon spokesman Bryan...

Great start, with the Vancover Washington arrest.

LYON, France - The international police organization Interpol said on Wednesday it had issued a worldwide arrest warrant for Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, who is wanted in several countries for attacks he allegedly carried out for the Al Qaeda terrorist organisation. The so-called Red Notice was issued at the request of Algeria, which wants Zarqawi arrested in connection with the kidnap and murder of two Algerian diplomats in Iraq in July 2005. The head of Al Qaeda operations in Iraq, Zarqawi is also wanted by police in Germany for his part in a number of terrorist offenses and is sought...

ALARM - former Peruvian president Fujimori stopped in Chile SANTIAGO - former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, shown to have financed several assassinations and to have devoted itself to offences of corruption, was stopped Monday morning in Santiago of Chile where it had arrived a few hours earlier, announced in Lima the Peruvian minister Foreign Affairs, Oscar Maúrtua.

ISLAMABAD: Interpol is searching for Mustafa Ahmed Muhammad Uthman Abu Al-Yazid, Al Qaeda’s chief financial officer and senior adviser to Osama Bin Laden and has alleged that he is hiding in areas adjoining the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, sources told Daily Times on Friday.

PARIS: The head of Interpol urged the world to "redouble" its efforts in the fight against terrorism, saying Thursday's murderous bombings in Madrid showed that al-Qaeda is not the only threat. "Since September 11, 2001, Interpol has underlined that the global fight against terrorism is not only against al-Qaeda," said Ronald K Noble, the international police agency's secretary-general. The Spanish government blamed Basque separatist group ETA for the attacks - the worst ever in Spain - that killed nearly 200 people. "For decades Spain has been combating terrorism, not only against ETA but all terrorist groups, and today's attacks demonstrate...

LYON, France (AP) - Only 34 countries have agreed to share their data on stolen or missing blank passports, which number in the hundreds of thousands and allow terrorists to breeze across borders, the Interpol secretary general said. Ronald Noble told The Associated Press that between them, the complying countries - who make up about one-fifth of the agency's 181 members - report 80,000 blank missing passports. "This is only what's on file," Noble said. "You can imagine the rest. If we don't have a global database with everyone contributing, think of all the terrorists and criminals trading in documents."...

SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina--Police in Bosnia's mainly Bosniak and Croat federation entity on 4 February arrested the deputy director of Interpol in Bosnia, Asim Fazlic, on suspicion of abuse of power, bribery, and information leaks, the Federation Interior Ministry said on 5 February. The warrant for Fazlic's arrest was issued by the Bosnian Prosecutor's Office's Special Department for Organized Crime, Economic Crime, and Corruption, run by foreign prosecutors appointed by the international community's high representative to Bosnia, Paddy Ashdown. Fazlic is suspected of accepting bribes to tip off suspects wanted by Interpol prior to the release of arrest warrants against...

Cotonou - The voice and data recorders from a Boeing 727 that crashed in the west African state of Benin on Christmas Day have been sent to France for examination, police sources said Tuesday. A Boeing 727 operated by Union des Transports Africains (UTA), which is registered in Guinea, crashed into the sea on takeoff from Cotonou, the main city in Benin, killing 139 of the 161 people on board. Most of the passengers were Lebanese expatriates returning home for the holidays. A police source in Cotonou told journalists that the black boxes were sent at the weekend to Paris...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Published on TaipeiTimes http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2004/01/05/2003086416 International body accepts `Taiwan' NAME GAME: The International Association of Chiefs of Police, ignoring a possible backlash from China, accepted the official change from `Taiwan, China' to `Taiwan' By Ko Shu-ling STAFF REPORTER Monday, Jan 05, 2004,Page 1 Despite China's audacious political maneuvers, Taiwan has managed to change its national title at the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) from "Taiwan, China" to "Taiwan." "Due to China's pressure and maneuvers, our group members at the IACP were forced to change the name of their country of origin from the `Republic of China' to `Taiwan,...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Extremist groups linked to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network are very active in European Union states, using them as a recruiting ground and a base, a report from the EU's police agency Europol has concluded. The report on "Terrorist Activity in the European Union", based on intelligence from EU states, also said the groups regarded Europe as a potential target for attacks. Al Qaeda, blamed for the September 11 attacks in the United States, has also been linked by investigators to attacks in Asia, notably the Bali bombings and is suspected to supporting anti-U.S. insurgents in...

International police organisation Interpol says it has issued a notice for the arrest of former Liberian President Charles Taylor, indicted for war crimes in Sierra Leone. Interpol, based in Lyon, France, said the notice - which is not an arrest warrant but can be used by national police to make a provisional arrest - was issued at the request of the Special Court for Sierra Leone. Mr Taylor has gone into exile in Nigeria. As with all its "red notices", a photograph of Mr Taylor appeared on Interpol's web site, accompanied by the caption: Taylor, Charles Ghankay. Born on 28...

NYPD to have access to Interpol data NEW YORK -- It will soon be easier for a city police officer to determine if a person detained for any type of offense _ including the most minor _ is wanted for any other crimes worldwide. The head of Interpol announced Wednesday that the NYPD will be the first U.S. police department to have access to the international police organization's high-tech weapon for fighting international crime and terrorism, called I-24/7. Currently, an officer would have to contact Interpol directly for that information. Interpol General Secretary Ronald K. Noble made the announcement at...

BENIDORM, Spain (Reuters) - Police may have missed a chance to thwart the assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic due to poor cooperation in tracking stolen blank passports, according to the head of Interpol. Secretary General Ronald Noble said police now knew that Milorad Ulemek, a key suspect in the March 12 shooting in Belgrade, had obtained one of 100 blank Croatian passports stolen from that country's consulate in Mostar, Bosnia, in 1999. Ulemek, a former paramilitary and gang leader also known as Milorad Lukovic or by the nickname "Legija," used the passport to travel extensively through Switzerland, Austria,...

'I don't know who taught him to fly, but they didn't tell him to check the gas'. A 25-year-old man is facing several charges after his plane, reported stolen from an airfield in Maine, crashed into a Montérégie field yesterday morning. The man, a Livingston, Me., resident, suffered only minor injuries in the accident. He had been flying a Cessna without a pilot's licence or flight training, said Constable Manon Gaignard of the Sûreté du Québec. For unknown reasons, the man left a private airport, near Turner, Me., about 6:30 a.m., running out of gas three hours later above St....

Mugabe's 'brutal' police chief lands role at Interpol By Basildon Peta Southern Africa Correspondent 09 May 2003 Zimbabwe's police commissioner, who is accused of being a driving force behind President Robert Mugabe's brutal repression of opponents, has been appointed honorary vice-president of Interpol. Augustine Chihuri is on a list of close Mugabe associates subject to sanctions by the European Union and the United States because of the regime's human rights abuses. Yet it emerged yesterday that he has accepted an invitation from the international police organisation's President, Jesus Espigares Mira, to take up the honorary post. The Zimbabwe Herald, the...

Algiers - Interpol's new global communications system to track terrorists across the world will soon be operational in Algeria, the international police agency's chief said in an interview on Thursday. Interpol head Ronald Noble told daily El Moudjahid that the tracking system "will help Algeria combat (terrorism) more effectively". Noble, who ended a two-day visit to the conflict-ridden North African nation on Wednesday, said the device should be up and working by April. He said it would be entirely financed by Interpol. He said Algerian authorities had provided extensive information about the Salafist Group for Call and Combat, or GSPC,...

<p>Interpol chief Noble: "Something worrying is going on"</p> <p>PARIS, France -- The head of Interpol -- the world's international police force -- has warned that al Qaeda operatives are preparing simultaneous attacks in several countries.</p> <p>Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble also said he thought al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was alive.</p>

Al Qaeda Seen Planning Major Strikes - Interpol PARIS (Reuters) - Al Qaeda militants seem to be preparing simultaneous attacks in several countries including the United States, the head of the world-wide police authority Interpol said in a newspaper interview published on Friday. Without saying an attack was imminent, Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble told the Paris daily Le Figaro that recent intelligence suggested it was gearing up for the attacks. Noble also said he thought Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was alive, even though nobody has been able to track him down. "Something worrying is going on," he...

Friday, 8 November, 2002, 10:57 GMT Bin Laden is alive - Interpol Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden is alive and planning further terrorist attacks around the world, the head of Interpol has said. Ronald Noble told the French newspaper Le Figaro: ''Osama Bin Laden is alive, and on the ground the hunt for him goes on as it did on the very first day. ''As long as I have no proof to the contrary, I will consider Bin Laden a fugitive well and truly alive.'' Mr Noble also said he believed Bin Laden's wealth to be intact, despite attempts to...

...Tonight, September12, 2002, I am watching a PBS program describe Milosovic as a master at the use of television for propagandistic manipulation of large groups of people. He is being tried in the Hague (Netherlands, also known as Holland) for war crimes. If he alone is convicted by this world war crimes court, it will be a one-sided miscarriage of justice. We spent hundreds of millions of dollars bombing our longtime friends on behalf of people who dragged marines through dusty African streets, blew a hole in the U.S.S. Cole and ultimately (and intentionally) slaughtered thousands of American citizens, men,...

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Ten Americans and six foreigners were charged Friday with taking sexually explicit photographs of their own children or children in their care and sending them over the Internet to an international child pornography ring, the U.S. Customs Service said. Forty-five children, including 37 in the United States, were victims and have been removed from the care of those indicted, Customs officials said. Most of them are in the custody of another parent or relative. The defendants include nine people from seven states who were indicted in Fresno, Calif., along with six residents of Denmark, Switzerland and the...

LYON, France (AP) — When about 30 padded letters destined for the United States were stuffed into a mail box at a small post office in southeastern France last week, it raised suspicions. Fearing the envelopes might contain biological agents such as anthrax, police carefully opened them and found pills sometimes taken by athletes who want to bulk up or improve their performance. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Wednesday that Interpol had opened an inquiry into the envelopes. Police did not release the names or locations of those to whom the letters were addressed. The suspiciously large...

Tue Jul 2, 7:55 AM ET SOFIA, Bulgaria - Police have arrested a Kosovo Albanian whom Interpol wants in connection with a series of killings in four European countries, an official said Tuesday. Rumen Milanov, who heads Bulgaria's police unit fighting organized crime, did not fully identify the 40-year-old suspect, but provided only his initials. The man was arrested already on June 20. It was not clear what prompted authorities to delay word of his capture. The detainee fled in 1993 from a prison in the Netherlands, where he was serving a 4-year prison term for attempting to kill a...

VICTORIA, B.C. -- Police say they achieved a major breakthrough in a child pornography investigation because of help from U.S. computer investigators. Soeren Poulsen, a reserve police officer in Sequim, Wash., and a cohort spent several weeks cracking a password that led to hidden computer files containing hundreds of pictures and a video, Victoria police Sgt. Dave Mann said Tuesday. Backlogs at Canadian computer forensic offices, including Canada Customs and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, could have delayed the investigation by a year or more, Mann said. No charges had been filed as of late Tuesday. The case is tied...