The US Treasury says billions of dollars moved by New Ansari to Dubai included the drug money of two major traffickers - one supplying heroin in southwest Asia and the Middle East; the other smuggling heroin, opium and morphine in the border regions of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran by
designating
New Ansari a major money laundering vehicle. The US is trying to
chip away
at its financial foundations. Americans are now banned from doing business with the company and with 15 individuals and firms with links to it.
The BBC has learnt that the British intelligence service MI5 was monitoring two of the men who were responsible for the 7 July London bombings over a year before the event. They were filmed meeting a group who were planning to bomb a nightclub and shopping centre. MI5 then followed the two men, Mohammad Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer, to their homes in northern England. MI5 did not inform the British police force in West Yorkshire, where the two bombers lived, but they did share the information with the American FBI.
Three prisoners in Britain have been found guilty of
stab
bing the Bosnian Serb war criminal and fellow inmate, Radislav Krstic. All young Muslims, they'd sought revenge for Krstic's role in the killings of more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in 1995.
A judge in Florida has frozen the assets of the
decease
d former Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez. The judge is trying to end a legal battle between Mr Perez's mistress and his estranged wife. The women can't