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...book published late last year, Africa expert Gerard Prunier says, for example, that Kagame did not want foreign forces to intervene for fear that they would block his path to power. Prunier also says that Kagame's forces believed some Tutsis deserved death because they had not fled years of Hutu repression before the genocide. (See TIME's video "Rwanda's Cinema Under the Stars...
...Monday's attack, the U.N. said all of its offices in Islamabad would be closed indefinitely. That could severely hamper relief efforts just when refugees need it most. The WFP has been coordinating the distribution of food and other relief supplies to more than 2 million people who had fled the fighting between the Pakistani army and insurgents in the Swat Valley of the North-West Frontier Province this summer as well as organizing development projects throughout the country. (See pictures of Pakistan's vulnerable North-West Frontier Province...
When asked what charges Polanski might face, Gibbons of the Los Angeles County district attorney's office said in a terse e-mail, "Polanski pleaded guilty to unlawful sex with a minor. He fled the jurisdiction of the Los Angeles Superior Court before the court could sentence him. When he is returned to Los Angeles, he will appear before the court for sentencing. There is really nothing else to discuss because this is a matter that is between the fugitive and the court...
...Roman Polanski was arrested in the U.S. on number of charges related to having sex with a 13-year-old girl. Polanski, a citizen of both Poland and France, agreed to a plea deal but then fled to Paris before he could be sentenced. France does not extradite its own citizens, so the famous filmmaker remained safe as long as he didn't leave the country. But on Sept. 26, the 76-year-old traveled to Zurich, where he was intercepted by Swiss authorities. Switzerland, it seems, has no qualms about complying with U.S. extradition requests. (Read "Roman Polanski...
...mutual fund but avoided detection for years by hopping between Caribbean islands that did not have extradition laws (and once even tried buy his own island). And Lebanon's Mohammed Ali Hammadi, wanted in the for murdering a U.S. Navy passenger during the 1985 hijacking of a TWA flight, fled to his homeland, which has no treaty with the U.S. and refuses to give...