Human trafficking allegations test diplomatic immunity

By Traver Riggins

Allegations of human trafficking against Qatar diplomat highlight immunity issue

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"… ommunity.” …"

"… on, D.C., against Essa Mohamed Al Mannai, Qatar’s second-highest ranking diplomat in the United States. The case has reopened debate over a problem that has …"

"… gencies charged with making sure foreign officials, who enjoy the cover of diplomatic immunity, still obey U.S. laws and labor standards.The lawsuit has also …"

"… ls.Each year, about 3,500 visas are issued to domestic workers employed by diplomats and officials at international organizations like the World Bank. Between …"

Book Review: A rising tide of white-collar lies

By Michael Hudson

New book examines dissembling by Bernie Madoff, Martha Stewart, Barry Bonds

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"… so created one of the biggest scandals of the Bush presidency. Former U.S. diplomat Joseph Wilson accused the Bush administration of ignoring his findings fro …"

Afghanistan: Heart of darkness

By Ahmed Rashid

LAHORE, Pakistan, August 5, 1999 — As the Taliban launch a new offensive against opposition forces, the threat which this Islamic regime pos

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"… s with his fellow militant groups and may be helping to fund some of them, diplomats in the region say. The diverse groups have their own agendas, mainly focu …"

"… and failings.”Another U.S.-bin Laden confrontation may be looming. U.S. diplomatic sources say surveillance of bin Laden’s worldwide alliance of fundamen …"

"… ad, 16 other people were killed and 128 wounded. Uzbek officials and Asian diplomats in Tashkent say that the IMU’s leader, Tahir Yoldasev, subsequently fle …"

"… 7 ceasefire agreement with Tajikstan’s neo-communist government.)Western diplomats in Islamabad say they believe Yoldasev is financing his operations throug …"

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The Clinton top 100: Where are they now?

By M. Asif Ismail

WASHINGTON, March 31, 2003 — Two years after they left the federal government and one year after a ban that limited their lobbying activitie

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"… y. Secretary of State Albright, who left Georgetown University to become a diplomat, returned to the campus as Michael and Virginia Mortara Distinguished Prof …"

WikiLeaks and the classification follies

By Julian Hattem

Egypt’s leader has trouble hearing, while Italy’s prime minister enjoys “partying hard.” The Sultan of Oman is too busy to read books. A dip

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"… njoys “partying hard.” The Sultan of Oman is too busy to read books. A diplomat’s picnic menu in Eritrea included sheep innards with honey.Such banal re …"

"… ncluded sheep innards with honey.Such banal revelations, contained in U.S. diplomatic cables made public by WikiLeaks in recent weeks, were routinely classifi …"

"… gn nations.”Judging from the WikiLeaks release, that apparently includes diplomatic cables on heavy drinking at a wedding, jokes exchanged by foreign leader …"

"… document. For instance, Pfc. Bradley Manning, the suspected leaker of the diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks, is said to have downloaded them from a De …"

Inside the shell: Drugs, arms and tax scams

By Gerard Ryle

The man behind shell companies linked to arms deals, drug lords and tax fraud.

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"… a director, the second in 2006.The origins of Taylor's knighthood and his diplomatic career as high representative to Vanuatu lie in Hutt River Province, the …"

"… ds on loyal subjects, some of whom – like Taylor – claim to act as his diplomatic envoys.From as early as 2004, Taylor – with the Australian Prudential …"

"… sured.”Casley says Taylor has since been stripped of his knighthood, his diplomatic position and his Hutt River citizenship. “There was no one incident at …"

"… an unrelated offshore banking firm in Cyprus operated by a former Russian diplomat.Further evidence, perhaps, of an even more impenetrable labyrinth. …"

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Privatizing combat, the new world order

By Laura Peterson

In 1998, the U.S. had a military presence in a remote African war that drew little attention from the media

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"… beria, Sierra Leone and Haiti, and evacuated peacekeepers, aid workers and diplomats from combat zones. In one instance, an ICI helicopter was dispatched from …"

"… ernment to provide security for British embassies around the world after a diplomat was killed in a bombing believed related to the al Qaeda network. Kellogg …"

Marketing the new 'Dogs of War'

By Duncan Campbell

Sri Lankans hire Tim Spicer, a man already involved in global mercenary activities

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"… 9, a scathing parliamentary report found that Foreign Office officials and diplomats had withheld information from the government about Sandline's plans to ex …"

"… t. He could not have been better endowed with connections in the military, diplomatic, intelligence and financial world.After leaving the SAS in 1985, Mann's …"

"… e establishment connections. Rupert Bowen, whose overt career as a British diplomat in Europe and Namibia was later identified as cover for Secret Intelligenc …"

"… gh the Sri Lankan government seemed unaware of his checkered past, British diplomats had not forgotten that his Sierra Leone sanctions-busting episode had cos …"

An incentive to clamp down

By Mutegi Njau

With U.S. prodding, 3 East African nations get tough on terrorist suspects — even when evidence is lacking

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"… eading him to believe they were either U.S. or Israeli agents. An American diplomat in Nairobi confirmed to ICIJ that the FBI took part in the interrogation w …"

Anatomy of a rendition

By Leo Sisti

In cleric's abduction in Italy, the CIA all but left a calling card

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"… thus began a tangled spy story that has resulted in a major political and diplomatic embarrassment for the United States and its close ally in the war on ter …"

"… ioning and torture. These records say the rendition was engineered by U.S. diplomats suspected of being CIA agents. By the time the indictments were issued, a …"

"… Omar disappeared in the Balkans, where he could have been relocated." That diplomat is among the Americans who have been identified as CIA agents by the Itali …"

"… ents with Abu Omar's kidnapping. They included Jeff Castelli, officially a diplomatic counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Rome but identified in the most recent …"

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