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  • Cables Portray Expanded Reach of Drug Agency [Blabber mouths......]

    12/25/2010 6:58:55 PM PST · by Sub-Driver · 19 replies · 1+ views
    Cables Portray Expanded Reach of Drug Agency By GINGER THOMPSON and SCOTT SHANE WASHINGTON — The Drug Enforcement Administration has been transformed into a global intelligence organization with a reach that extends far beyond narcotics, and an eavesdropping operation so expansive it has to fend off foreign politicians who want to use it against their political enemies, according to secret diplomatic cables. In far greater detail than previously seen, the cables, from the cache obtained by WikiLeaks and made available to some news organizations, offer glimpses of drug agents balancing diplomacy and law enforcement in places where it can be...
  • Bank scam con may rattle Kerry closet

    07/30/2004 6:15:08 AM PDT · by Land_of_Lincoln_John · 66 replies · 4,583+ views
    Boston Herald ^ | Friday, July 30, 2004 | David R. Guarino
    As John F. Kerry tries to bounce out of Boston and into a decisive fall campaign lead, a skeleton from the past will slink out of jail - possibly looking to score headlines and undercut the new nominee. David Paul, a central figure in a 1980s savings and loan scandal, is set to be sprung from a halfway house in Miami Sunday - a decade after his conviction on 97 counts of banking fraud. TV news outlets are scrambling to line up the first interview, hopeful the long-silent Paul might spill some beans about his close fund-raising ties to Kerry...
  • Syrian arms dealer sentenced to 30 years in prison

    02/24/2009 7:11:46 PM PST · by Cindy · 4 replies · 317+ views
    (REUTERS) via YNET NEWS.com ^ | Published: 02.24.09, 23:40 / Israel News | n/a
    Monzer al-Kassar, 63, a longtime resident of Spain known as the "Prince of Marbella" for his lifestyle in the glitzy seaside town, was sentenced after being convicted in November of agreeing to sell millions of dollars of weapons to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.
  • U.S. convicts (Syrian Arab) "Prince of Marbella" of arms deal

    11/22/2008 11:06:07 AM PST · by PRePublic · 6 replies · 646+ views
    reuters ^ | 11,21,08
    U.S. convicts "Prince of Marbella" of arms deal Thu Nov 20, 2008 1:17pm EST By Edith Honan NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. federal jury convicted a Syrian arms dealer and a co-defendant on Thursday of conspiring to sell $1 million in weapons...Monzer al-Kassar, 62, a longtime resident of Spain known as the "Prince of Marbella" for his lifestyle in the glitzy seaside town... Kassar has been selling weapons since the 1970s to the Palestinian Liberation Front and clients in Nicaragua, Bosnia, Croatia, Iran, Iraq and Somalia. In 1995, Kassar was tried and acquitted of supplying arms that were used...
  • Report: Syria warns Spain over arms dealer extradition

    12/24/2007 3:35:13 PM PST · by knighthawk · 30 replies · 217+ views
    al Bawaba ^ | December 25 2007
    Spanish newspaper El Mundo reported in its Monday headline that about threats from Syria to Spain demanding that the alleged arms dealer Monzer Al Kassar will not be extradited to the United States. The paper said that one of the Syrian messages was sent to the head of the CNI, Spanish secret service, threatening they would not look the other way if the extradition takes place. "If you think we are going to ignore the affront inflicted by north-American henchmen on our brother (Kassar), you don't really know us and [you] are no friends of the Syrian people," the paper...
  • Spain arrests arms dealer Al Kassar on U.S. charges

    06/08/2007 2:14:11 PM PDT · by knighthawk · 13 replies · 323+ views
    Swissinfo ^ | June 08 2007 | Reuters
    MADRID (Reuters) - Spain has arrested flamboyant Syrian-born arms dealer Monzer al-Kassar on U.S. charges of terrorism, Spain's National Police said on Friday. Al-Kassar has been charged by a Federal Court for the Southern District of New York with conspiring to kill Americans, supply terrorists, obtain anti-aircraft missiles and launder money, the police said. A long-time Spanish resident known as the "Prince of Marbella" for his opulent lifestyle, al-Kassar was arrested at Madrid airport and will appear before a judge in the capital later on Friday. Under Spanish law, the United States will have 40 days to provide documents in...