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[from amaah] Jury in Arms Trial Is Told About a Double Sting Operation
Strange bedfellows alert... spies, arms trafficking, money laundering and more... "When the defense lawyers offered their version of the case, they made a startling assertion that turned the government’s allegation on its head. They said that Mr. Kassar had been an important intelligence source for the government of Spain, where he had lived for about 25 years."
[from amaah] James Crumley, Crime Novelist, Is Dead at 68
“I’m not middlebrow and middle class,” he said in the Dallas Morning News interview. “Sure, I’d like it if more people read the books. My children would like it. My ex-wives would like it. But that’s just not what I’m about.”
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[from amaah] The master of the murder castle: A classic of Chicago crime
Magnificent swindler, petty cheat, mass murderer, he was a man of nimble, tortuous mind. He pyramided fraud upon fraud. Young, good-looking, glib, he mesmerized business men and captivated and seduced pretty young women, at least two of whom he married bi
[from amaah] Thousands killed by US's Korean ally
Cold war skeletons... a cold-blooded slaughter from early in the Korean War, when this nation's U.S.-backed regime killed untold thousands of leftists and hapless peasants in a summer of terror in 1950. 100,000 people were executed.
[from amaah] Army Drops More Charges in Officer's Abu Ghraib Case
I'd bet even money that he has the goods on Stephen Cambone, General Miller and/or Donald Rumsfeld... ergo 8 or the 12 charges dismissed, recommendation for administrative punishment rather than trial, unexpected technicalities that come up etc.
[from amaah] Justice for Charles Taylor
Even after Charles Taylor became president, he continued to act like a warlord, abusing the citizenry and selling vast amounts of Liberia's natural resources for personal gain. (US evangelist Pat Robertson was one close business partner.)
[from amaah] The General’s Report
Seymour Hersh on Antonio Taguba laying out the machinations of Blood and Sin aka Monsieur Donald "Sin" Rumsfeld and Stephen "Blood" Cambone in Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib. General Gitmo Miller also features... Ineffable sadness all around
[from amaah] Washington Babylon
California Republican congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham traded military contracts for $2.4 million in antiques, cash, and other booty. He is now in jail, but his case exposed a world of bribery, booze, and broads that reaches into the Pentagon, the C.I.
