Then, with the fugitives willing to shoot their way out of trouble, fear replaced anger.
The fugitives, however, were never seen again and their bodies were never found.
Some Czech families were asked to and agreed to undertake the grave risk of hiding the fugitives in their homes.
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Relief is pouring in from all quarters, and excellent service is being rendered by British and foreign naval and merchant ships in sheltering the fugitives and bringing relief.
Russia is finding it hard to winkle Chechen fighters out of their strongholds in mountain gorges in the south, where the fugitives from Grozny were heading this week.
Nor did she have much time for arguments about the fugitives, some of whom (like the Palestinian Authority's West Bank intelligence chief, Tawfik Tirawi), had until recently been discussing security issues with their Israeli counterparts.
She fears that protective networks in Serbia and elsewhere are trying to buy time until the 2008 deadline for the completion of trials, and has asked the council for reassurance that the court will be kept open for as long as it took to bring the fugitives to justice.
Yet even the nimblest fugitives leave clues, even patterns -- they're just buried in an expanding universe of data, a challenge that intensifies as we seek still more data, hoping it will yield more insight.
Among the 27 Serb fugitives being sought by the tribunal is Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, who, according to U.S. media reports, was the focus of negotiations involving Washington and other NATO countries seeking immunity from prosecution for Milosevic if he agreed to stand down.
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If the remaining two fugitives are caught, presumably the closure could be delayed.
While the most wanted fugitives have evaded capture, one international criminal is making his first appearance on the Forbes Most Wanted.
"Most Wanted" premiered on Fox in 1988 and since has helped lead to the capture of over 1, 100 fugitives both in the United States and 30 additional countries.
"Now the new reality in the Middle East is that Saddam has gone ... but that carries with it its own imperatives, and it is crucial that no country in the region harbors fugitives of Saddam's entourage, nor allows itself to be a sponsor of terrorism, " Straw told reporters in Bahrain on his first stop in a tour of the Gulf states.
On Tuesday, the FBI said it is still looking for three fugitives who are charged in the indictment.
Other fugitives on the list have not only remained free, some have arguably become more powerful.
But in recent years Cuba has co-operated with the US and returned fugitives wanted on criminal charges.
Pope Francis told his Argentine biographer that he regularly hid fugitives from the Argentine government, reported the Associated Press.
More recently, dozens of Cuban Medicare fraud fugitives in the U.S. have tried to escape prosecution by returning to the island.
Following nine days as fugitives, the trio crashed in rural Huerfano County while trying to evade police at speeds of up to 120 mph, authorities said.
Cuba has harbored U.S. fugitives in the past, though most of those cases date back to the 1960s and 70s, when the island became a refuge for members of the Black Panthers and other militant groups.
The FBI's 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list, created in 1950, is certainly the most famous.
Federal prosecutors allege the conspiracy was led by wealthy Saudi fugitive Osama bin Laden, one of 13 indicted fugitives not being tried in the case.
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Officials have not named the men or said whether they were on a list of the kingdom's most wanted fugitives.
This would upgrade the quality of the profession without hampering a bounty-hunter's ability to find and return fugitives and without much altering one of the most attractive aspects of the system, that it costs taxpayers nothing.
The exiled Saudi millionaire has been on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list since 1999.
Urbina is the 497th person to be named to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list since it was begun in 1950.
In truth the imbalance may in large part reflect the fact that there are more American fugitives in Britain than there are British gangsters in America.
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These individuals were indicted in the Southern District of New York and have been fugitives since.
Toth was placed on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" fugitives list last April.
To the new Rwandan government, however, they were regarded as fugitives from justice.
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