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Cohen also conferred with Gaddafi's brother-in-law Abdullah Senussi, who last year was convicted in absentia in a French court for the 1989 midair destruction of a plane in which 171 people, including the wife of an American diplomat, were killed. The Americans never mentioned that incident. "What was the point of bringing this up?" asks the consultant who traveled with Cohen. "We wanted to establish a dialogue...
...indicted in absentia for the murder in December...
...begun rearranging their foreign policies to live with him and are pressing for the economic sanctions to be lifted. Most Arab governments refuse to deal with Chalabi or allow him to use their countries as staging areas for any guerrilla force he might assemble. Jordan has convicted him in absentia on banking-fraud charges. (Chalabi says the allegations were trumped up.) Though the loyalty of many divisions in Saddam's 400,000-man armed forces is questionable, U.S. intelligence believes that enough of the elite Republican Guard and Special Republican Guard units would stand and fight. And those well-trained...
CONVICTED. IRA EINHORN, 58, fugitive; of wrongful death; in Philadelphia. Einhorn, who is fighting extradition from France, was found guilty in absentia in 1993 for the 1977 murder of his girlfriend Helen Maddux. Last week a jury ordered him to pay her family $907 million...
...early '70s, Holly Maddux, beautiful Bryn Mawr alum, met Ira Einhorn, charming social activist. Ira, Holly soon learned, was also an abusive womanizer. Eventually her rotting corpse was found in his apartment. Having fled the U.S. for Ireland, Einhorn was finally tried in absentia and found guilty of murder. (He's currently in France, where he is appealing extradition.) Out of this intricate, unsettling story has come a flat, ponderous miniseries. The pace is maddeningly sluggish, and Kevin Anderson generates too little of the charisma that the real Einhorn must have possessed...