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INDEXU.S. NEWS ....................5AWORLD NEWS ............6AOPINION ........................7A COMICS & PUZZLES .....6B

INVESTORS STRUGGLE WITH DETAILS OF GREECE BAILOUT, BUSINESS FRONT

JAMES MURDOCH UNDER THREAT AS SCANDAL SPREADS, 3A

URUGUAY WINS COPA AMERICA,SPORTS FRONT

ABUSE BY CREDIT ISSUERS IN CHILE AND BRAZIL ENRAGE CONSUMERS, 4A

Seized narco assets stolen in Colombia

Norwegian’s manifesto reveals plan of attack and fear of Islam

Agentsfrom Pakistan bully exiles in U.S.

After more than a century, Walter Reed to close

Critics seek to stem deportations after U.S. boots thousands

BY VIVIAN SEQUERA Associated Press

BOGOTA — After police gunned down the notorious Colom-bian drug traffi cker Gonzalo Ro-driguez Gacha in 1989, his sprawl-ing ranch was among the fi rst of thousands of properties seized from drug lords to come under control of a unique state agency.

Two decades later, the 1,340-acre ranch has literally disappeared, shrinking bite by bite as neighbors kept extending their properties into it in the ab-sence of state control.

The story of the ranch mirrors that of the National Drug Offi ce, or DNE, which was supposed to manage it and other seized assets of the illegal narcotics trade.

But 20 years after the DNE was established, billions of dollars in drug assets that the government

planned to use to benefi t crime victims and law enforcement have simply disappeared, offi cials say. The agency itself has been so hampered by misappropriation, mismanagement and maddening legal challenges that Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos has decided to scrap it.

Interior Minister German Var-gas said a decree dissolving the agency would come soon. That will leave the Finance Ministry to sort through a list of 95,000 assets to determine what remains, and how much has been plundered and by whom, says the DNE’s fi -nal director, Juan Carlos Restrepo, whom Santos appointed in Octo-ber shortly after taking offi ce.

“Supposedly we should have a large amount of jewels, all the Rolex [watches] encrusted with diamonds,” Restrepo said, sigh-

ing. “But I’ll tell you, if ranches have been robbed, why wouldn’t a Rolex be pilfered?”

The list of assets includes a $140,000 Ferrari, multimillion-dollar homes, a hotel, small planes, jet skis and paintings by famed Colombian artists.

What is certain, Restrepo and others at DNE say, is that billions of dollars worth of assets have disappeared. Prosecutors will try to determine who took what, and then the Finance Ministry will sell off the remaining as-sets at auction. The proceeds are supposed to be used to pay repa-rations to victims of Colombia’s long-running internal confl icts, including those forced from their homes and relatives of the more than 50,000 slain.

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BY STEVEN ERLANGER AND SCOTT SHANE New York Times Service

OSLO, Norway — The Norwe-gian man charged with a pair of at-tacks in Oslo that killed at least 92 people left behind a detailed man-ifesto outlining his preparations and calling for a Christian war to defend Europe against the threat of Muslim domination, according to Norwegian and U.S. offi cials fa-miliar with the investigation.

As stunned Norwegians con-tinued to understand Sunday what is the deadliest attack in the coun-try since World War II, a portrait emerged of the suspect, Anders Behring Breivik, 32. The police iden-tifi ed him as a right-wing fundamen-talist Christian, while acquaintances described him as a gun-loving Nor-wegian obsessed with what he saw as the threats of multiculturalism and Muslim immigration.

“We are not sure whether he was alone or had help,” a police offi cial, Roger Andresen, said at a televised news conference. “What we know is that he is right wing and a Christian fundamentalist.”

In the 1,500-page manifesto, posted on the Web hours before the attacks, Breivik recorded a day-by-day diary of months of plan-ning for the attacks and claimed to be part of a small group that in-tended to “seize political and mili-tary control of Western European countries and implement a cultur-al conservative political agenda.”

He predicted a confl agration that would kill or injure more than 1 million people, adding, “The time for dialogue is over. We gave peace a chance. The time for armed re-sistance has come.”

The manifesto was signed An-drew Berwick, an Anglicized ver-sion of his name. A former U.S.

government offi cial briefed on the case said investigators believed the manifesto was Breivik’s work. The manifesto, “2083: A European Dec-laration of Independence,” equates liberalism and multiculturalism with “cultural Marxism,” which the document says is destroying European Christian civilization.

The document also describes a secret meeting in London in April 2002 to reconstitute the Knights Templar, a Crusader military order. It says the meeting was attended by nine representatives of eight Euro-pean countries, evidently including Breivik, with an additional three members unable to attend, includ-ing a “European-American.”

The document does not name the attendees or say whether they were aware of Breivik’s planned attacks, though investigators pre-sumably will now try to determine if the people exist and what their connection is to Breivik.

Thomas Hegghammer, a terror-ism specialist at the Norwegian De-fense Research Establishment, said the manifesto bears an eerie resem-blance to those of Osama bin Laden and other al Qaeda leaders, though from a Christian rather than a Mus-lim point of view. Like Breivik’s manuscript, the major al Qaeda dec-larations have detailed accounts of the Crusades, a pronounced sense of historical grievance and calls for apocalyptic warfare to defeat the religious and cultural enemy.

“It seems to be an attempt to mirror al Qaeda, exactly in re-verse,” Hegghammer said.

Breivik was also believed to have posted a video Friday summarizing his stand. In its closing moments, the video shows Breivik in military uniform, holding assault weapons.

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BY MARK MAZZETTI, ERIC SCHMITT AND CHARLIE SAVAGE New York Times Service

WASHINGTON — FBI agents hunting for Pakistani spies in the United States last year began track-ing Mohammed Tasleem, an attache in the Pakistani Consulate in New York and a clandestine operative of Pakistan’s military spy agency.

Tasleem, they discovered, had been posing as an FBI agent to ex-tract information from Pakistanis in the United States and was issuing threats to keep them from speaking openly about Pakistan’s government. His activities were part of what gov-ernment offi cials in Washington, along with a range of Pakistani jour-nalists and scholars, say is a system-atic campaign by Pakistan’s Direc-torate for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) to keep tabs on the Pakistani diaspora inside the United States.

The FBI brought Tasleem’s activ-ities to Leon Panetta, then the direc-tor of the CIA, and last April, Panetta had a tense conversation with Paki-stan’s spymaster, Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha. Within days, Tasleem was spirited out of the United States — a resolution typical of the spy games among the world’s powers.

But some secrets of that hidden world became public last week when two Pakistani-Americans working for a charity that the FBI believes is a front for Pakistan’s spy service were indicted. Only one was arrested; the other is still in Pakistan.

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BY KIMBERLY HEFLING Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the Army’s fl agship hospital where privates to presidents have gone for care, is closing its doors after more than a century.

Hundreds of thousands of U.S. wounded from World War I to today have received treatment at Walter Reed, including 18,000 troops who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.

President Dwight Eisenhower died there. So did Gens. John J. Pershing and Douglas MacArthur.

It’s where countless celebri-ties, from Bob Hope to quarter-back Tom Brady, have stopped to show their respect to the wound-ed. Through the use of medical diplomacy, the center also has tended to foreign leaders.

The storied hospital, which opened in 1909, was scarred by a 2007 scandal about substandard living conditions on its grounds for wounded troops in outpatient care and the red tape they faced. It led to improved care for the wounded,

at Walter Reed and throughout the military. By then, however, plans were moving forward to close Walter Reed’s campus.

Two years earlier, a govern-ment commission, noting that Walter Reed was showing its age, voted to close the facility and con-

solidate its operations with the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., and a hospital at Fort Belvoir, Va., to save money.

Former and current patients and staff members will say good-bye at a ceremony Wednesday on the parade grounds in front of the main hospital complex. Most of the moving will occur in August. On Sept. 15, the Army hands over the campus to the new tenants: the State Department and the District of Columbia. The buildings on campus deemed national historic landmarks will be preserved; oth-ers probably will be torn down. The city is expected to develop its section for retail and other uses.

“For many of the staff members, even though they know that this is the future of the military health system, in a way, it’s still like losing your favorite uncle, and so there is a certain amount of mourning that is going on and it is an emotional time,” said Col. Norvell Coots, commander of the Walter Reed Health Care System.

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BY ADAM SEGE McClatchy News Service

WASHINGTON — Since the Bush administration rolled out a program in 2008 that shares fi n-gerprints between local police and federal immigration agents, about 30,000 illegal immigrants convicted of serious crimes have been deported.

But even more immigrants — roughly 33,000 — have been

thrown out of the United States without ever being convicted of non-immigration crimes.

Opponents of the program, Secure Communities, say it casts too wide a net and threatens com-munity policing. The governors of Massachusetts, New York and Illinois have joined them in re-cent months.

While immigration offi cials defend Secure Communities and

their plans to expand it to the en-tire country, they acknowledged the growing criticism again this week by giving a task force more time to look into the program.

For years now, illegal immigra-tion has been a hot button issue. It’s prompted new laws, tough en-forcement, political action and lo-calized violence. Some charge that illegal immigrants are stealing U.S. jobs. Other see their labor as help-

ing the nation keep its competitive edge at a low cost and fi lling jobs that many citizens refuse to do.

In June, the director of Immi-gration and Customs Enforcement, John Morton, announced the cre-ation of an advisory committee to look into the program’s practices relating to minor traffi c offenses and report in 45 days, he said.

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FERNANDO VERGARA/AP

Cars seized by Colombia’s National Drug Office from drug lords parked in a lot in Bogota.

LUIS M. ALVAREZ/AP

Rehabilitation and care for amputees has been an important part of the mission of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

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