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Show Prosecutor: Some weapons used in FTC report recommends hefty Russian school raid stolen from police rewards to catch spammers e-m- ail Mara D. Bellaby THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Jennifer THE ASSOCIATED PRESS What would it take to get to turn in one of those spammers who send millions of 'unwanted At least $100,000, the Federal Trade Commission figures. incentives are the only way to persuade people to disclose the identity of friends and others they know are responsible for flooding online mailboxes with unsolicited pitches for prescription drugs, weight 6ss plans and other productstbccording to an agency report iFhursday. ' The commission said a government-funded reward system could work if the payoff was between $100,000 and $250,000 higher than rewards in most criminal and terrorism cases. For example, the FBI pays $50,000 for tips leading to the arrests of most of its top 10 someone Six-figu- re ment of civil penalties," Hfle said. The agency said potential in- formants probably would be people who work with the spammers or are close enough to have knowledge of their illegal activities. Congress asked the FTC to study the feasibility of a bounty system as part of the "can spam" legislation that went into effect in January. The law prohibits senders of spam from disguising their identity by using a false return address or misleading subject line, and it bars senders from collecting addresses from Web sites. "Americans are being inundated with spam, and we need high-profi- fugitives. The FTC, in a report requested by Congress, did not take a Dosition on whether such a sys Some of the weapons used by militants in the deadly Russian school siege were pilfered from police posts in armed raids allegedly led by one of Chechnya's most notorious warlords, Russia's chief prosecutor said in an interview published Thursday. Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov's comments in the Kremlin-backe- d newspaper Rossiskaya Gazeta suggested further evidence that the at School No. I hostage-takin- g in Beslan may have been organized by Shamil Basayev, one d of Russia's fugitives. The only alleged militant captured alive by Russian a man identified as forces Nur-PasKulayev said earlier in footage broadcast on Russian television that they were carrying out an assignment from Basayev and former Chechen President Asian Maskhadov. The separatist Maskhadov has denied any involvement. Ustinov told the newspaper that authorities seized seven Kalashnikov rifles and three pistols from the militants that were stolen during highly coordinated and brazen June at- tacks in Ingushetia, which borChech-ny- a ders both and North Ossetia. Hundreds of fighters raided the police posts in an overnight at- to keep trying different approaches until we solve the problem," said Sen. Jon . , Conine, among those who has pressed for rewards as a way to eliminate spam. "Monetary rewards can provide a real incentive for private citizens to come forward and identify spammers." ' But the idea may be premature, according to the Direct . Marketing Association, the largest trade group for direct and interactive marketers. The group believes it would be wise to give the law and law enforcement efforts more time to work before "rushing into a system like this," spokesman Louis Mastria said. The Justice Department recently announced an Internet crime crackdown that resulted in dozens of arrests and convictions on charges including the use of spam to steal credit card numbers. The industry also has been aggressive. In March, Microsoft, America Online and others sued hundreds of people suspected of sending spam. tem was a good idea. The report said any reward should come from taxpayer funds because collection of civil penalties from spammers will not be enough to finance the System, according to Allen Hile, assistant director in the agency "I division of marketing practices. "AH of our cases end in a court order, but substantially fewer y end up in assessment and pay- C Key The 2003 book portrays Roman Catholic leaders as demo-nizin- g women for centuries and DeemBEIRUT, Lebanon covering up the truth about the Holy GraiL which Brown, says ing its contents insulting to is Mary Magdalene herself. Christianity, Lebanese authorities have banned "The Da Vinci More than 10 books have been writteri trying to discredit Code," a novel that has drawn harsh criticism and millions the historical and theological of readers content of Brown's noveL with its depiction of Jesus Christ marrying Mary Brown, who has said he is too Magdalene and fathering a busy working on a sequel to child. talk much about the book, has ' said he is grateful his work is American author Dan Brown's generating debate. thriller was pulled off Brown's book, which sat atop shelves around Lebanon on the The New York Times best-selllist for months, has sold more orders of the General Security than 7.5 million copies worldDepartment this week after the Catholic Information Center, wide and is expected to be made into a movie. It has been a sucwhich speaks for Lebanon's Catholic community, recomcess in Lebanon, where about 35 mended that it be banned. percent of the 3.5 million popula"We were asked for our nnin- - tion is Christian. ionoa the book and we gave,-- , i Roger Haddad, assistant man-it," the Rev! AbdoAtyi Kasjn, y, :;, ager:at.the.VirginMegastore's. who heads the center, told The x ;boqkstor,e department, says the book had been among the top . Associated Press on Thursday. "We cannot accept that anyone five best sellers for almost a insult our dignity and beliefs. ... year. He declined to give a sales figure but said it was a huge Christianity is not about forsuccess until the bookstore was . giveness to the point of insultasked to take it off the shelves ing Jesus Christ." ASSOCIATED fast-pace- g globe-trottin- er n i . it t 1 & t 1 SERGEI GRITSAssociated Press a cross at a Moscow hospital on Thursday. The photo was made by the Associated Press on Sept. 3 on the day the Beslan school siege ended in shooting and explosions. Viktoria Ktsoyeva, 14, holds a photo of her hand with ' war-ravag- late 30s who has fought Russian rule in Chechnya for more than a decade, has mastertack,- killing 88 people. minded or claimed responsibiliWeb A video on a site the next month showed ty for a string of ruthless attacks, including a 1995 Basayev and about a dozen at a Dagestan men hostage-takin- g other camouflage-cla- d hospital and the 2002 seizure of pulling weapons and ammuni- tion boxes off shelves in a a Moscow theater that left 129 building. On the video, hostages dead. Ustinov said in the interview Basayev identified the building as an Interior Ministry arsenal that the militants who particiin Ingushetia. pated in the Beslan raid had been promised between $200 Russian security officials said the videotape was credible and $300. However, not all the and that testimony from arparticipants realized children would be taken hostage. rested suspects indicated "And when one of the fightBasayev led the Ingush raids. In Beslan, investigators have ers in the school objected, the (militants') leader personally pursued leads that Basayev was the mastermind behind the shot him," Ustinov said. Meanwhile, Aslanbek Sept. 1 school attack, in which 32 heavily armed militants Aslakhariov, a top adviser on seized the school and more Chechnya to President than 1,200 people with relative Vladimir Putin, said Russian . ease. . authorities were preparing to : The standoff ended Sept. 3 in use force in Beslan to end the a hail of gunfire and explosiege but did not initiate the sions that killed 338 people, fighting. Aslakhanov told foreign renearly half of them children. of the 32 raiders Thirty-on- e porters in Moscow that human were killed, officials said rights violations in Chechnya had fueled anger there, caus Basayev, a militant in his French and Arabic. "I call this backwardness. ... This novel is what is called popular literature, people read it for fun, it's not harmful and banning it only attracts more attention to its content," he told AP. The head of Lebanon's Publisher's Union was equally angered. "Salman Rushdie is forgotten in the annals of history, whereas Islam stayed on and Dan Brown will go, too, and Christianity will stay on," Ahmed Fadlallah Assi said in a statement. "Who decides that a creative work will lead to religious strife? Banning ... might give a bigger chance for these ideas to spread." The General Security Department said it consults with Christian and Muslim religious authorities on all books dealing with sensitive subjects. The department routinely screens imported publications to prevent the distribution of material it deems harmful to the country's security and policies. PRESS mi hi in all three languages: English, Zeina Karam I most-wante- Lebanese authorities ban 'Da Vinci Code' THE Mr pro-reb- ... ing people to join terrorist groups. The southern Russian region has endured nearly a decade of war, violence and rampant crime. "We are speaking about this objectively, and the president has spoken about this: that mass violations of rights of citizens of the Chechen republic, especially those sweeping operations, brings about those who take up arms," he said , The Beslan attack was the third major terror attack to hit Russia in three weeks, shocking Russians and prompting Putin to propose sweeping changes to the country's legislative and executive bodies and security agencies. 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