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Starbucks officials did not return a request for comment. But in a statement on its website, Starbucks touts its “top tier” wages and “extensive” health plan. “Starbucks does not take action or retaliate against partners who might be interested or take part in union activity,” says the statement, dated...
...year-old Mohammad Haydr Zammar, a businessman who had immigrated to Germany and was living in Hamburg, was wanted by U.S. officials on suspicion of helping to recruit some of the 9/11 hijackers, as part of Al Qaeda's Hamburg cell. According to the report, after a U.S. request Zammar was arrested in Morocco by local police. He was questioned in Morocco by CIA officials and then flown to Damascus; the intelligence report does not specify which aircraft transferred...
...German intelligence report cites another deal, an "urgent request [by the United States] to avert pressure from the EU side [on Morocco] because of human-rights abuses in connection with [Zammar's]arrest, because Morocco was a valuable partner in the fight against terrorism." Grey, who had the report translated, says he obtained the classified report from a German investigator, who remains anonymous. The German government has acknowledged that they dropped the charges against the Syrian intelligence officers because of their cooperation in anti-terrorism, but they deny that the decision was specifically linked to the Zammar case...
...London home, allowing Grey to trace the paths of hundreds of supposedly secret CIA flights. Still, given the explosive nature of the CIA program, some details were astonishingly easy for Grey to find. The CIA neglected to cover their tracks in key areas. The agency did not request confidentiality on professional aviation tracking websites, which allow certain flights to remain unrecorded for security reasons. The online databases helped fill out the details for Grey, who pieced together thousands of flight legs of CIA planes, and helped to confirm the reports of about 20 of the 89 renditions he detailed...
Some might point to a $27,000 ski trip request in order to discredit that number, but for the most part according to Finance Committee Chair Lori M. Adelman ’08, requests are merited and within reason. “Very rarely does a student group ever apply for funding that in an ideal world they shouldn’t receive,” Adelman said. “Our policies in funding, such as our decision not to fund fees for visiting speakers, are products of budget constraints. We have to prioritize to make the most benefit...