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...months and a meager $6000 advance from The Lyons Press later, Carlson, armed with “a tiny 20-dollar Radio Shack mini-tape-recorder,” was alone on an April 16, 2003 flight to Qatar...
After getting in touch with a public affairs officer from the American army, Carlson got from Qatar to Kuwait, where he says he spent a week “dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s.” He also had to settle the matter of getting someone to transport him over the uneasy Iraqi border...
...felt like a cold war flashback: Britain was riveted by not one but two spy flaps last week, while Russian agents were arrested in Qatar and charged with involvement in an alleged political assassination. First, Prime Minister Tony Blair's government caught flack when prosecutors dropped charges against a former intelligence analyst who had exposed U.S. and British plans to spy on U.N. Security Council members opposed to the Iraq war. Then former Cabinet Minister Clare Short, who resigned in protest after the fall of Baghdad and has been a thorn in Blair's side ever since, declared...
DIED. ZELIMKHAN YANDARBIYEV, 51, exiled separatist leader who served as President of Chechnya from 1996 to '97; after a bomb exploded his car as he was driving with his teenage son, who was injured in the blast; in Doha, Qatar. Russia had been working to extradite the Islamic extremist, whom it suspected of having ties to al-Qaeda, for his alleged involvement in the deadly Moscow theater siege...
...DIED. ZELIMKHAN YANDARBIYEV, 51, exiled separatist leader who was Chechnya's President from 1996-97; after a bomb exploded in his car as he drove home from Friday prayers with his teenage son, who was injured in the blast; in Doha, Qatar. Russia had been working to extradite the Islamic extremist for his alleged involvement in the deadly Moscow theater siege in 2002 and for alleged ties to al-Qaeda...