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The 41-year-old Emirati man, H.U., consumed morphine and codeine and provided heroin to his countryman friend, H.A., who was found dead in his car because of a drug overdose in October.

admitted that he consumed drugs but he denied being responsible for H.A.'s death by providing the latter with heroin.

The two defendants, both Bangladeshis -- one on a business visa, identified as H.A. (32), and the other a worker and identified as J.M.

H.A. additionally denied having raped the victims when they both appeared in the Court of First Instance.

H.A. Technical Solutions (HATS), Minneapolis, a provider of high availability software solutions that provide 99.999 percent uptime for applications and data and backup/recovery solutions, has reported that the company's South Korean-based reseller, SamBoo System Corporation, expects to supply Samsung Electronics with 1,000 licenses in 2002 for HATS' H.A.

Unlike many high availability solutions, H.A. Clusters is a software-only solution that does not require proprietary hardware and runs on more platforms than any other software of its kind.

The Dubai Court of First Instance convicted the 61-year-old British defendant, H.A., of verbally threatening to endanger the life of the 30-year-old Korean visitor, J.H., and that of his family and to behead his father if he did not sign a letter acknowledging a debt of Dh250,000.

I did not take his signature by force, but I was present with another person, named S., who obtained the signature," argued H.A. when he faced the court.