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MEXICO Death Us Do Part The International Court of Justice in the Hague began hearing a case against the U.S. concerning death sentences against 51 Mexican citizens. Mexico alleges the U.S. broke the 1963 Vienna Convention by failing to contact Mexico's embassy or consular officials immediately upon the arrests of the 51 suspects, which have taken place since 1979. The U.S. alleges that Mexico, which has no death penalty, is attempting to interfere with its laws. Though the court has found against the U.S. on similar issues before, its rulings have no way of being enforced...
...raid on the homes of Hamdani and his pal turned up an array of big-screen TVs and other luxury goods, $600,000 in forged American Express and Thomas Cook checks, a state-of-the-art counterfeiting operation complete with silk-screen equipment, ink stamps like those used by consular officials, and stacks of high-grade fake passports and other identity documents. Hamdani was tagged as the suspected mastermind. A Pakistani emigre, he had a rap sheet stretching as far as Brunei and was on the lam from a 1996 U.S. indictment for dealing in phony passports in New York...
...last 48 hours, TIME has learned, Riyadh's embassy in Washington has launched a major search through its medical, student, consular, cultural and other records to try to find out whether funds from an account of Princess Haifa their way into the hands of people who may have been supporting terror. That link has not been proven. But sources close to the Saudis made it clear that the ambassador's wife did not keep a close eye on her accounts. On Friday, Princess Haifa's accountant was dispatched to a branch of the Riggs National Bank in Washington to make...
...well as somewhat ghastly life-size figurines of Harris and Okichi. There's also a passage from Harris's diary, engraved on a large outdoor marker, in which the New Yorker waxes severe: "At half past two p.m. of this day (Sept. 4, 1856) I hoist the first consular flag ever seen in this empire," he begins. "Grave reflections. Ominous of change. Undoubted beginning of end. Query?Xif for real good of Japan...
During the hearing, Kamarck said that “homeland defense will not happen in the White House or in a coordinating council. It will happen on our borders or before our borders when consular officers, customs agents, INS agents, coast guard personnel and airport security officers, acting on intelligence gathered here or abroad, manage to stop, deter or prevent terror...