Sunday, July 27, 2008

A short drop and a sudden stop

One imagines that Naples, Italy, mafia kingpin Adriano Graziano -- now spending quality time in a jail cell -- is glad he doesn't live in Iran. The Iranians made 29 prisoners do the hempen dance on various and sundry charges including murder, narcotics smuggling, armed robbery and organized crime. No word on whether said crimes included piracy and impersonating a clergy of the Church of England. Graziano is also probably glad he isn't Radovan Karadzic who was caught impersonating Dragan Dabic, apparently the Serbian Santa Claus. His lawyer may or may not have filed papers to fight Karadzic's extradition over the matter of 11 war crimes charges stemming from the Yugoslav war. Now that the Italians have swept the trash off the floor of a Roman clothing store, maybe now they can finish getting the trash off the streets of Naples.

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