Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 29, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba A6 Canada world Winnipeg put i Phass sunday Octobie 29, 2000_______ a Italy charges 1,491 with child porn Complex sting involved fake paedophile web site Rome a an italian prosecutor has charged 1,491 italians and foreign nationals with offering or downloading child pornography on the internet in what could become one of the biggest trials in Italy newspapers said yesterday. Prosecutor Alfredo Romanni has ordered 831 italians to stand trial and has called for 660 foreigners to be tracked Down and sent to Italy to answer charges. The child pornography Case centres on a paedophile ring based in Russia that was uncovered a month ago. It was not immediately Clear if extradition requests or International arrest warrants had been issued for those accused outside Italy and believed to be mainly in Russia France and Malaysia the newspapers said. The huge number of people were trapped in a Complex exercise involving a fake paedophile internet web site set up by italian authorities police and the worlds biggest software company Microsoft. The site a called a in a or a a Loverson children a registered 1,032 subscribers despite a number of Clear warnings to users to be sure they wanted to enter. A number of those charged have been accused of offering pornographic material Over the internet. The vast majority face charges of downloading child pornography. The charges were made exactly a month after the paedophile scandal erupted in Italy following a swoop on 600 Homes in the country. Eight people were initially arrested in Italy on charges of possessing and trading in child pornography All of it from Russia. A police operation specializing in internet crime and based near Naples reported that the russian paedophile ring ran an operation to Kidnap children from orphanages circuses and Public Parks and to film them while they were forced to commit sexual acts. In Italy packages ordered on the internet were intercepted when they arrived by mail and were repacked. They were then delivered to the addresses by undercover police officers disguised As postal workers and carrying hidden cameras. The material Cost Between $400 and $6,000 us for each video or disc depending on the Type of film the customer wanted a the More horrific the More costly. The service was divided into several categories. The most gruesome police said was coded Negros Pedo in which children were raped and tortured to death. Italian prosecutor Romanni told italian news Agency Ansa he believed those accused in Italy would co operate with the court and May thereby avoid jail sentences. A but the important thing is to succeed in freeing at least one of the children who appear in those horrendous pictures. If we do succeed we will have achieved a Large part of our a Reuters j Elizabeth Dalziel associated press Anwar rhumb a stands on ledge of her bedroom window facing Gilo next to spot where tank Shell hit her Home in beit Jalla. Mideast fighting turns two Placid suburban valleys into War zones battlegrounds replace barbecues by Ron Lampeas beit Jalla West Bank a once the israelis on Haa Nafa Street and the palestinians on St. Nicholas Street shared suburban pleasures evening breezes that Drew them to their balconies. The thump thump of kids kicking a soccer Ball in the Street below. And they shared suburban views clusters of houses the Colour of Sunset perched Over the Brush studded Valley that lies Between them. Now the residents of Haa Nafa Street in Gilo and St. Nicholas Street in beit Jalla share Battlefield experiences and Battlefield views shattered sandbagged windows. Streets littered with Bullet casings. Tanks teetering Over the Valley. Last weeks firefights Between Gilo an israeli suburb of Jerusalem and beit Jalla a suburb of the palestinian town of Bethlehem introduced a wrinkle to the struggle Here that neither Side Ever anticipated. It turned Middle class bedroom communities into battlegrounds. Gilo established in the 1970s on land controlled by Jordan before the 1967 Mideast War was designed to accommodate the jewish immigrants who flooded Jerusalem after israelis establishment in 1948. After decades in caravan Camps Gilo was a Chance at the israeli dream a smaller classrooms Broad streets a Little outdoor space for a Barbecue. A i thought it was moving up when i moved out of a caravan and came Here five years ago a israeli Orit Eliahu said of her three room apartment in Gilo. A i loved the Yasmin rhumb has known the View across the Valley from St. Nicholas Street since infancy and she insisted on staying at Home when she married. Shattered each has had her View shattered Eliahu a when two bullets broke her window while she was in bed Reading a humid a when a tank Shell struck her Home blowing a Hole in the Wall of the bedroom shared by her five year old and two year old daughters. No one was injured in either attack. On five nights last week palestinian gunmen a using beit Jallas Steep twisting streets As natural cover a exchanged gunfire along Haa Nafa and other streets on Gilous Periphery. Israel used automatic fire then added tank shells and helicopter gunships. Now along St. Nicholas Street residents Are forsaking upper Storey bedrooms crowding together in first floor rooms. In Gilo the army positioned two tanks on the Cusp of the Valley in front of the Haa Nafa Street apartments and threw up an unsightly Wall of Cement blocks. Residents stacked sandbags against their windows. Neither Side has suffered serious casualties a a Blessing in a conflict that has taken More than 130 lives the vast majority palestinian. But each Speaks of profound changes. A my daughter draws corpses a rhumb said of her shy five year old Anwar who lost her textbooks and toys in the tank blast. A my boys cry All night a Eliahu said. There was never much interaction Between the neighbourhoods but what Little Contact there was has disappeared and the sides warily watch each other from across the Valley. Residents of beit Jalla blame palestinian gunmen from out of town for starting the shooting. A no shots came from the houses that were bombed Quot said beit Jallas mayor Raji Zei Dan who has appealed to the palestinian authority to restrain the gunmen. That evinced Little sympathy in Gilo. In each place some residents speak anxiously of leaving. But both rhumb and Eliahu say they have invested too much in their Homes and swear never leave. Instead they make adjustments. Quot at night my kids sleep on the floor a rhumb says. An hour later Eliahu echoes across the Valley a at night my kids sleep on the a associated press coast pledges to catch killers Abidjan Ivory coast a Ivory coasts new government pledged yesterday to track Down the killers of dozens of Young men whose bodies were found dumped in a Field a men who opposition officials and witnesses say were executed by government Security forces. The gruesome discovery of the 55 bodies on Friday and the allegations that the country a paramilitary police could be involved cast a Shadow Over the new woman tries to sell grandson Moscow a the boy thought his grandmother was taking him to Disneyland but russian police say she had other plans to sell her grandson so his organs could be used for transplants. Police in Ryazan 200 Kilometres Southeast of Moscow said yesterday they arrested a woman after they were tipped that she was trying to sell her grandson for $70,000 us to a Man who was going to take the boy to the West. There his organs were to be removed and sold a Ryazan police officer pounds Northern philippine Island Manila Philippines a tropical storm Xan sane pounded the main Northern philippine Island of Luzon yesterday after battering the country a Eastern provinces. At least nine people died and 19 Fishers were missing officials said. More than 200 people were injured Many by collapsed Walls and flying tin roofs and debris. The storm with sustained winds of 110 pm hand gusts of up to 140 pm a was blowing across Luzon a Southern Region and expected to pass near metropolitan Manila today forecasters . Reassessing mad cow disease Impact London a news yesterday of the death of a 74-year-old Man from the human form of mad cow disease forced scientists to reassess the Likely death toll from variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease. Until now most of the known victims have been Young people from 12 years old upwards with Only a handful of deaths among More mature people aged up to 55. Government adviser prof. Roy Anderson said the death the 85th confirmed so far in Britain sparked a rethink about the size of a possible survives leadership Challenge Belfast Northern Ireland a Ulster unionist Leader David Trimble faced Down a severe Challenge from within his badly divided protestant party and narrowly held on to the leadership yesterday in a vote seen As crucial to the survival of the Northern Ireland peace settlement. I viable was Able to stave off a Challenge from Jeffrey Donaldson who opposes the peace Accord Only after adopting a far harder line toward remaining in a Power sharing government with sinn Fem the political Wing of the Irish Republican top three military leaders resign Lima Peru a Peru Stop three military commanders resigned yesterday after rumours they might be plotting a coup to restore the country a ousted spy chief a powerful and shadowy figure whose dismissal has sent the nation into political chaos. President Alberto Fujimori announced the resignations of the Heads of the army the Navy and the air Force saying they were intended to a contribute to the process of institutional fortification in this transition a compiled from the news services Hie sound Ofa big ban closing amp families applaud air India charges by Dene Moore / m e m o r i a m s to be published Friday november Ioas pan of our annual remembrance Day tributes. For details Call 697-7100 Vancouver a the entire Jain family was aboard air India flight 182 when it plummeted into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ireland 15 years ago. The Ottawa Mother father and two daughters were among the victims of a bomb that exploded on Board killing All passengers and Crew. A my family has been ruined a screamed businessman i. C. Jain a relative who was waiting in new Delhi. A Why did they choose that flight a when Jain read the list of the victims in the new Delhi Airport that Day he crumpled the paper held it to his Chest and prayed. A total of 329 people a including 278 canadians a were killed in the june 23,1985 crash. The Boeing 747 was in route to new Delhi and Bombay after collecting passengers in Toronto and Montreal. Manu Parson a close Friend of the jains said he was relieved upon learning Friday that the ramp had Laid charges. A a it a finally done a he said yesterday in an interview from Ottawa. A a that a what we be been waiting for for so Long. A this is a very Good piece of news. Finally Justice is probably going to be brought to Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh news rekindles memories of those killed in bombing Bagri were charged with eight counts including first degree murder in the deaths of the 329 people aboard flight 182. The same Day that flight went Down a bomb exploded at Narita Airport outside Tokyo killing two baggage handlers who were transferring suitcases from a Canadian Pacific flight from Vancouver to air India flight 301, bound for Thailand. Malik 53, and Bagri 51, were also charged with first degree murder in those two deaths As Well As attempted murder with respect to the passengers on Board flight 301. Terrible memories news of the charges against Malik and Bagri brought Many terrible memories for Suresh Kurl whose close Friend died in the crash. A these tragedies Are not Ordinary tragedies a Kurl said. Quot it was the biggest mass murder in aviation every time the anniversary passes and every time the ramp make an announcement a it wakes up All your old memories a he said. Several friends and relatives of the victims said they want to attend Malik and Bagrie a trial. T Bagri is also charged with the 1988 attempted murder of outspoken Newspaperman Tara Singh Hayer publisher of the indo Canadian times. Ten years later Hayer was shot to death a killing that remains unsolved. Ramp said there could be More arrests. Talwinder Singh Parmar and Inderjit Singh Reyrat were also named in the ramp charge As a indicted co conspirators. Parmar formerly of Burnaby b.c., was Leader of the Babbar Khalsa a militant group dedicated to the creation of the separate sikh state of Khal Stan from indians Punjab state. He was shot to death in India on oct. 15,1992. Reyrat was convicted in 1991 of making the Tokyo bomb and is currently in prison. Jagard Paliwal whose 15-year-old Nephew Mukul was among the victims said news of the charges is a kind of Good for the a my brother his Mukules father. Passed away three years later a same Day same a the was continuously working asking for a Public inquiry and also he never really let this thing go from his Lata Padas husband Viresh and two daughters died on flight 182. A we certainly have been hoping and praying for this news for quite some time but this came very unexpectedly a Pada said from her Home in Mississauga ont. A Canadian press it f ;