Lawyer asks Thai PM not to send Russian to US The Press Democrat | Bout, a 43-year-old former Soviet air force officer who is reputed to have been one of the world's most prolific arms dealers, was arrested in March 2008 in Bangkok as part of a sting operation led by U.S. agents. Bout has allegedly supplied weapon...
Lawyer asks Thai PM not to send Russian to US The Boston Globe | BANGKOK-The lawyer for accused Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout filed a last ditch appeal Monday to Thailand's prime minister in an effort to stop his client's extradition to the United States. | Bout, a 43-year-old former Soviet air force offic...
Lawyer asks Thai PM not to send Russian to US Newsvine | BANGKOK — The lawyer for accused Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout filed a last ditch appeal Monday to Thailand's prime minister in an effort to stop his client's extradition to the United States. | Bout, a 43-year-old former Soviet air for...
Lawyer asks Thai PM not to send Russian to US Houston Chronicle | BANGKOK - The lawyer for accused Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout filed a last ditch appeal Monday to Thailand's prime minister in an effort to stop his client's extradition to the United States. | Bout, a 43-year-old former Soviet air force off...
Lawyer asks Thai PM not to send Russian to US Seattle Times BANGKOK - | The lawyer for accused Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout filed a last ditch appeal Monday to Thailand's prime minister in an effort to stop his client's extradition to the United States. | Bout, a 43-year-old former Soviet air force off...
Karzai 'fired' anti-corruption lawyer after top official stung The Guardian | Fazel Ahmed Faqiryar says arrest of National Security Council head is 'tip of the iceberg' of top-level Afghan corruption Hamid Karzzi, the Afghanistan president, has been accused of forcing out an anti-corruption lawyer. Photograph: Shah Marai/AFP...
Celebrity lawyer to sue after winning appeal The Australian | Former celebrity lawyer Michael Brereton plans to initiate a multi-million-dollar legal action against the Australian Crime Commission. | Mr Brereton - once at the centre of the ACC's biggest tax fraud investigation, Operation Wickenby - is al...
Fixing our farms Inquirer | CONSIDER THE following facts, all drawn from official statistics: | 'Seventy percent of the Filipino poor can be found in the rural areas, where the dominant source of livelihood is farming. Farmers, especially coconut farmers, make up the poorest segment of our population. | 'In the first half of this year, the overall economy grew by more than ...
What's wrong with the Philippines? Inquirer | (Editors note: The following essay, written by the assassinated father of President Aquino, appeared in the Solidarity quarterly journal in 1985. The President's father was murdered at the Manila International Airport on Aug. 21, 1983, upon his return from voluntary exile in the United States. The Inquirer obtained the permission of Solidarity to...
