April 5, 2010 There is an old saying about the fierce Chechen tribes who inhabit southern Russia’s Caucasus mountains: `Chechen cannot ever be defeated. They can only be killed.’ Chechen are Russia’s nemesis. Even the notoriously brutal Russian mafia fears the ferocious Chechen, and for good reason. Last year, Prime […]

24 January 2005 SHANGHAI – Back in the 1930’s, Shanghai was the wickedest city on earth. Just beyond the stately buildings of the Bund, Nanjing Road, and the European Concessions lay squalid slums, armies of leprous beggars, thousands of child prostitutes, and opium dens. Shanghai teemed with gun runners, con […]

17 January 2005 Phuket, Thailand – While politicians around the globe are jockeying to reap advantage from the December tsunami that smote southern Asia, forensic teams from a dozen nations are conducting the gruesome task of trying to identify horribly bloated, decomposing victims of the tidal waves that killed 5,000 […]