11.   Others worry that mobsters might be willing to say anything to escape attacks by enemies in other crime gangs or to win lenient sentences from courts.

12.   Police have made no arrests for the murder, which has been linked to Asian crime gangs.

13.   Police say the killing was a settling of scores between rival crime gangs.

14.   After months of relative quiet in the volatile townships outside Cape Town, rising tension between crime gangs and anti-drug vigilantes has police fearing renewed violence.

15.   Aside from killings, journalists in many countries faced harassment and intimidation from authorities as well as drug traffickers and other crime gangs.

16.   Chechnya has a traditional warrior culture, notorious crime gangs and an abiding hatred of Russia.

17.   Crime gangs on both sides of the sea are believed to cooperate in trafficking in arms, drugs and contraband cigarettes as well as smuggling into Italy illegal immigrants.

18.   Conference organizer Duc Pham said widespread racism against Vietnamese was partly based on the popular perception that many Vietnamese young people were involved in crime gangs.

19.   Crime gangs from Russia and other former Soviet bloc countries are believed to run lucrative smuggling rings involving weapons, drugs and stolen cars through Slovakia.

20.   Crime gangs use plastic explosives to attack rivals and wage intimidation campaigns.