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ArmorGroup Conflict of Interest
The Inspector General and his brother have a relationship where one helps the other and vice versa. The Inspector General was supposed to police the security contract at the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan, but was protecting is brother an executive at ArmorGroup. ArmorGroup is the company accused of wrongdoing and has continuously gotten away with it.
Tags: Howard Krongard; Board of Directors; corruption; Kubal; State Department; watchdog; war contractor; complaint; scandal
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"The Torture Tapes"
A videotape smuggled out of the United Arab Emirates shows violent and graphic torture carried out by the brother of the "country's crown prince." A former business associate of the prince's brother released the tapes and revealed that he was tortured, too. The UAE government initially denied wrongdoing, but as word spread, eventually detained the member of the royal family. It is also suggested that the U.S. Embassy in the UAE ignored the issue.
Tags: United Arab Emirates; Human Rights Watch; Sheikh; Gulf; Department of Homeland Security; UAE; House Human Rights Commission
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All Mine
"All Mine" details how the U.S. government facilitated a modern-day land grab by a politically connected American company in one of the world's poorest countries. Phoenix-based mining company Freeport McMoRan was able to purchase the world's largest copper mine from the the government of Congo at an extremely cheap rate because it made its play under the cloud of the world's deadliest conflict site since World War II, a climate of corruption and desperation. It did so with the help of $400 million in U.S. government financing, and intense lobbying from an employee of the U.S. Embassy in Congo -- a career diplomat who rushed through the revolving door to work for the mining company just weeks after the deal was finalized. Freeport McMoRan has a generously paid spokesman, not to mention millions in lobbying dollars, to get its story out. The report also includes interviews with Congolese people who were forced from their land and threatened with arrest for speaking with reporters.
Tags: copper; Congo; Freeport McMoRan; embassy; diplomat; mining
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The Jesus Landing Pad: Bush White House checked with rapture Christians before latest Israel move
After obtaining memos from secret meetings between members of the White House and fundamentalist Christian leaders, the Village Voice discovered top Middle East aides who justified Israeli policy decisions because they coincided with Biblical prophesy. This investigation looks into "the role apocolyptic Christians play in sabotaging the Middle East peace process."
Tags: religion; Bush administration; Israeli policy; Gaza Strip; anti-prostelyzation laws; Pastor Robert Upton; Israel Embassy; Americans for a Safe Israel
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Borderline Logic: Immigration lessons from the first U.S war with Iraq
In the wake of large arrests of people from Muslim countries, LAWeekly talks about the immigration issues the U.S faced after 1991 Gulf War. The story revolves around war refugees temporarily housed in two camps at Rafha and Al Arwatiyah in Saudi Arabia. The Weekly details the experiences of Rob Frazier who was then posted as political official at the American embassy in Riyadh. After having finally made a repatriation agreement with the U.N, it was discovered that "sleeper agents" of Saddam Hussein could well have sneaked in. And some of them might well be in the U.S now after being allowed in through a rather humanitarian security system.
Tags: gulf war; repatriation; refugees; camps; immigration; immigrants; Iraq; Saudi Arabia
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Chicago FBI: The failure of operation Vulgar Betrayal
ABC reports on the shutdown of a 1997 intelligence operation that could have revealed criminal connections leading to Sept. 11. Operation Vulgar Betrayal, which investigated the money trail of a suspected terrorist cell in Chicago, found members of the cell were connected to Osama bin Laden. Just a few months after the bombings of American embassies in Africa it became clear that the FBI headquarters and the Justice Department did not support the operation.
Tags: Muslims; Islam; jihad; anti-terrorism; security; safety; TAPE; TRANSCRIPT
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By The Book
60 Minutes II reports on the existence of "mounds of information" on the Al Qaeda network stored only a few blocks from the World Trade Center. Among the items in the cache was an Al Qaeda training manual. The documents also included testimony from U.S. Embassy bombing trials, earlier plans by Al Qaeda to fly a plan into the Eiffel Tower and efforts to obtain weapons of mass destruction.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; terrorism; September; 11th 2001; Al Qaeda Training Manual
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Al Qaeda Terrorist Dupes FBI, Army
The News & Observer tells the story of Ali Mohamed, a double agent, who served both "in the heart of the U.S. military at Fort Bragg and in the inner circle of Osama bin Laden's Islamic fundamentalist terrorists' network." Mohamed was among those arrested after the 1998 attacks on the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. In the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, the story is used to exemplify how a terrorist can harness "the openness and modern technology of secular Western society, transforming them into weapons to be turned on America." Mohamed - who spent two decades working for the Egyptian Islamic Jihad and had three years of training and service with the U.S. Special Forces - acquired sensitive documents and passed them along to radical Muslims, the newspaper reports. Though the CIA, the FBI and the Defense Department knew all about Mohamed, they failed to stop him from playing a central role in the 1998 bombings.
Tags: FOIA requests; Defense Intelligence Agency; September 11; World Trade Center; Pentagon; military; State Department; CIA; classified information; Army
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Nice Work, If You Can Get It
The National Journal looks at "the tradition of tapping well-heeled donors for diplomatic posts." The story focuses on the case of William Farish, the newly appointed U.S. ambassador to Britain, who "is one of more than two dozen people now on track to lead the good life ... to some desirable place because they bet big bucks on the Election 2000 winner." The report reveals that "Bush's first 35 political appointees to the diplomatic corps gave an average of $141,110 to him and other Republican campaigns and committees during 1999-2000." The author cites a number of critics who question "whether the spoil systems ... befits the United States at the cusp of the 21st century," and points to examples of untested diplomats' gaffes.
Tags: diplomacy; embassies; ambassadors; international politics; fundraising; Center for Responsible Politics; foreign policy; PACs; campaign contributors; Department of State
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Target America: The Terrorist War
An ABC News one-hour report examined the details surrounding the 1998 bombings of two American embassies in which hundreds died. In exploring the man the US had suspected was responsible - Osama Bin Laden - the report established for the first time a link between Bin Laden and President Saddam Hussein of Iraq.
Tags: TAPE TRANSCRIPT Nairobi; Kenya; Dar es Saleem; Tanzania; Africa; Pakistan; Afghanistan; Europe; intelligence; security; FBI Federal Bureau of Investigations Arab World Middle East international reporting