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...time a lawyer with the Reagan Administration Justice Department--argued that government officials who order illegal domestic wiretaps can be immune from lawsuits. The case in question arose in 1970, when then Attorney General John Mitchell allowed the FBI to wiretap Vietnam War protesters suspected of plotting to kidnap National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger...
Hayatt, a 30-year-old Pakistani, says he never had any trouble with the police in five years of living in Athens. That is until, he claims, several Greek and British intelligence officers kidnapped him a week after the July 7 bombings in London. "What happened," he stutters in halting Greek, "was frightening." Hayatt alleges that he was hooded and bundled into a van with six others, then "taken to a nice house about 30 minutes from Athens. I was asked about what I knew of the London bombings. I said, 'Nothing. Just what I saw on TV.'" His captors...
...Badr Corps, the military wing of Iraq's largest Shi'ite political party, was out to get him and his fellow attorneys--and using the police to do it. Al-Zubaidi said he had been told by reliable witnesses that Ministry of Interior vehicles were used in the kidnap and execution of his fellow defense attorney Saadoun al-Janabi on Oct. 20. The Iraqi government and the Badr Corps both deny any involvement in the kidnapping. But al-Zubaidi cited his suspicions as the reason he refused an offer by the Iraqi government to move to a house inside...
...sipped cappuccino in the kitchen of former Defense Policy Board chairman Richard Perle. Being a guy from Hollywood was often all it took to get people talking. "Steve got to do some amazing things," says Clooney, who is also Syriana's executive producer. "Other screenwriters probably want to kidnap him out of jealousy...
...time that Abu Musab Zarqawi, who claimed responsibility less than 24 hours later, has pulled off a major atrocity in Jordan. The method and the targets bore the hallmarks of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization, whose franchise in Iraq, which specializes in suicide bombings and beheadings of kidnap victims, is headed up by Zarqawi. The bomber at the Radisson SAS hotel is thought to have walked into a hall where a wedding reception was in progress, where he blew himself up just before the bride and groom arrived. Another attacker blew himself up in the marble and glass...