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...There has not yet been a formal statement from the Iraqi government or U.S. officials, but eyewitness reports say that a small number of Westerners were training ministry officials on the use of computers when the kidnappers hustled them away...
...head of Nurbank, Abilmazhen Gilimov, now in police custody and under investigation for alleged embezzlement, appeared on Kazakhstan National TV last Saturday to repeat his court statement claiming that Aliyev had him and his colleague handcuffed and hauled to a basement. Gilimov says that Aliyev then fired a gun over their heads and threatened to kill them, saying: "In this country I can get away with anything." There has still been no sign of Gilimov's deputy, Zholdas Timraliyev. When the kidnappings were first reported, the Presidential son-in-law had offered an $83,000 reward to anyone who found...
...From Kazakhstan, Aliyev rushed back to Austria, where he made a statement to an online magazine he controlled, dismissing the charges as a part of slander campaign. The real reason, he said, was his informing Nazarbayev of his intentions to run for Presidency in 2012. An enraged Nazarbayev stripped his son-in-law of the ambassadorship and dispatched a group of top law enforcers aboard a special flight to bring the culprit home. They came back empty-handed. "Under the circumstances," Aliyev explained yesterday in a phone interview from Vienna to a Kazakh online magazine, "only a suicide will come...
...really great fit.” Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Richard H. Fallon said that there was strong support for his appointment. “No controversy,” he said. “Everyone was just delighted.” In a statement released Wednesday, Law School Dean Elena Kagan called Sitkoff the “future of the field,” and deemed him a “worthy heir to the great Harvard tradition” of legal scholarship. “Rob Sitkoff is doing the most exciting and important academic work...
...STATEMENT: Speaking about the Church's role in colonizing Latin America, the Pope said: "The proclamation of Jesus and of his Gospel did not at any point involve an alienation of the pre-Columbian cultures, nor was it the imposition of a foreign culture." He made no mention of the long history of forced conversions and other forms of violence perpetrated by Catholics...