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U.S. Pursues Financial Leverage Over North Korea

June 30th, 2009 Kris Comments off

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is preparing to wield broad financial pressure to try to force North Korea to dial back its weapons program, building on strategies former President George W. Bush employed, but then unwound.

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Yemeni Plane Crashes Off Comoros With 153 On Board

June 30th, 2009 Kris Comments off

MORONI (Reuters) – An Airbus A310-300 from Yemen with 153 people on board, including 66 French nationals, crashed into the sea off the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros as it approached in bad weather early on Tuesday, officials said.

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How the FBI Broke Saddam – Part 3

June 30th, 2009 Kris Comments off

Saddam Hussein loved to talk – and to b.s. his sole interrogator, FBI Supervisory Special Agent George Piro.

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How the FBI Broke Saddam – Part 2

June 30th, 2009 Kris Comments off

Saddam Hussein was defiant in his first meetings with his American captors. But soon it was time to begin whittling down his ego, bloated by decades of absolute power in Iraq. Brute force, however, was not in the gameplan.

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How the FBI Broke Saddam – Part 1

June 30th, 2009 Kris Comments off

Excerpt – The FBI’s newly-declassified interrogation files on Saddam Hussein, reported exclusively in yesterday’s Daily News, stand in contrast to the dark view espoused by Team Bush: only extreme interrogation techniques extract confessions from “high-value” detainees who resist questioning.

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