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After Democratic financier Hassan Nemazee was accused of forging loan documents in order to borrow $74 million from Citibank, he wired the money back. A nice try, but not one that would stave off his arrest. Authorities arrested Nemazee on Aug. 25, shortly before he left on a European vacation. He was charged with bank fraud, released on a $25 million bond and placed under house arrest in his New York City apartment. Nemazee, who raised money for both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in the 2008 election, faces a prison sentence of up to 30 years...
...Security and Defense Committee. "Our duty is to make sure of the security for the people." Some members of parliament called for the sacking of the ministers of defense, interior and national security. "We are not in a battlefield, but we are in an intelligence battle," said Falah Hassan head of Sadr Movement. He and others were outraged that the head of intelligence Abdullah al-Shahwani was not in attendance. Others, though, excused Shahwani, citing the last minute nature of the session...
TIME sat down with Sudan's President Hassan Omar al-Bashir in Khartoum two weeks ago. In March, the International Criminal Court (ICC) indicted Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role in the conflict in Darfur, where at least 200,000 people have died since...
...reports trickled out that, following Ahmadinejad's dismissal of the Intelligence Minister late last month, as many as 20 officials in the ministry who disapproved of the public airing of confessions by political dissidents were purged, including the deputy minister and chief of counterintelligence. The move, according to Hassan Younesi, the son of a former Intelligence Minister, was engineered by Hussein Taeb and Ahmad Salek, two top Guards commanders. "Never has the Intelligence Ministry witnessed such a politically motivated purge since its establishment," Younesi wrote on his personal blog...
Sudan's President, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, reckons that being on the run is easy. In March, the International Criminal Court (ICC) indicted al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role in the conflict in Darfur, where at least 200,000 people have died since 2003 in a campaign that the Bush Administration described as government-sponsored genocide. The ICC indictments, the first to be handed down against a sitting head of state, obligate the world's nations to arrest al-Bashir on sight. And yet, he points out, he has attended summits and meetings...