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...gamut from arrogant (this spring Causey asked a judge to unfreeze some of his assets to pay for a country-club membership) to paranoid (in April, Skilling got picked up by police following a drunken scuffle in which he accused fellow bar patrons of being undercover FBI agents) to surprisingly defiant. Lay launched a p.r. blitz last week, using a post-indictment press conference to express grief at his failure to save the company while angrily proclaiming his innocence. "Failure does not equate to a crime," he said. The question is whether jurors will agree...
Clarification: One plane was permitted to leave before U.S. airspace was reopened on Sept. 13, but most Saudis flew out after that date. According to the 9/11 commission, the FBI interviewed 30 Saudis before they left, though it's not clear how closely they were questioned...
Accusation: Moore suggests that 142 Saudis, including 24 members of the bin Laden family, were allowed to leave the U.S. following 9/11 without adequate questioning by the FBI and at a time when civil aviation was grounded...
...international court. It was created - and its judges selected - by the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council. Salem Chalabi, the nephew of the once omnipresent opposition figure Ahmad Chalabi, was handpicked by former U.S. administrator L. Paul Bremer to be its director. The U.S. government funds the tribunal, the fbi helps gather evidence and 20 U.S. lawyers support the prosecution. Saddam's court appearance was a concession to international law: the third Geneva Convention requires that prisoners of war be either charged or released at the end of hostilities - in this case, the transfer of sovereignty to Iraq. But the only...
Along with this now familiar general warning, the FBI has introduced the specter of a new terrorism threat: booby-trapped beer coolers. A lightly classified bulletin sent to 18,000 state and local agencies last week advised local authorities to look out for plastic-foam containers, inner tubes and other waterborne flotsam commonly seen around marinas that could be rigged to blow up on contact. Also, the bulletin warned, terrorists might attach bombs to buoys. FBI and Department of Homeland Security officials say no such devices have actually been discovered, nor is there any current intelligence that terrorists are hatching...