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July 13, 2004, 1:41AM Kerry forms legal team to fight abuse at polls By STEWART M. POWELL and MARK HELM Hearst News Service BOSTON --Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry on Monday announced creation of a nationwide legal SWAT team of election lawyers to combat the kind of voting irregularities that occurred in Florida four years ago, contributing to the disputed election of President Bush by five electoral votes. Kerry said his team would take "tough action" to prevent the kind of voter "intimidation and harassment" that kept an estimated 1 million African-American voters from the polls in 2000 and prevented...

Saudi in Trouble - Corrupt Royal Family MAY 02, 2003 22:21 by Eun-Taek Hong (euntack@donga.com) Saudi is on the verge of collapse. So are the world economy and politics which relies heavily on the cheap oil of Saudi Arabia. The problems of Saudi are deeply rooted in the Palace. Robert Baer who worked for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency as an intelligence operative in charge of the Middle East for 21 years exposed the historical background and details of this collapsing Saudi dynasty. The Atlantic Monthly, a U.S. magazine of authority put an abridged edition of Mr. Baer`s `Sleeping with...