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2008-01-28 India-Pakistan

U.S. diplomat dies in Pakistan; suicide suspected

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Posted by Seafarious 2008-01-28 09:56|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 A "Constant Gardener" was he?

Posted by Besoeker 2008-01-28 10:08|| 2008-01-28 10:08|| Front Page Top

#2 So who did he give a visa to that doesn't want to be noticed?
Or maybe a blank passport?

Posted by 3dc 2008-01-28 10:19|| 2008-01-28 10:19|| Front Page Top

#3 i would have committed suicide the first day not my last in pakistan, sounds kindsa fishy

Posted by sinse 2008-01-28 10:49|| 2008-01-28 10:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Yes, Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz does not need to remind us of the famous Pakistani Apprehension and Murder Investigation Squads.

Waiting for, "We suspect it is suicide, but we are awaiting results on whether the 3 bullets match the gun found at the scene."

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-01-28 12:29|| 2008-01-28 12:29|| Front Page Top

#5 ..due to return to the United States on Monday..

The US is sending in the crack Fort Marcy Park Police Team to investigate...

/don't forgit the film boyz!

Posted by RD">RD 2008-01-28 12:42|| 2008-01-28 12:42|| Front Page Top

#6 In an odd coincidence,I heard this on FOX this morning along with a "developing story" on Iraq's Central Bank having a fire, destroying vital records although much of the money was evacuated. Then there was a story on the indictment of one of the UK's biggest heists of $100 million! An excerpt from the article:
Prosecutors said the gang left more than $300 million behind because it would not fit into the half-ton truck.

The robbery is believed to be the largest heist during peacetime. It eclipsed a $70 million theft from the Central Bank in Fortaleza, Brazil, in August, $65 million heist at the Knightsbridge Safe Deposit Center in London in 1987, and a $50 million robbery at the Northern Bank of Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 2004.

But all four are dwarfed by the theft of $900 million in U.S. bills and as much as $100 million worth of euros from the Iraq Central Bank in 2003. Police have recovered about $40 million of the Securitas money.

In the documentary Iraq's Missing Billions, Stuart Bowen mentioned 50 criminal investigations were ongoing of Coalition Provisional Authority officials. Maybe, contrary to Amb. Speckhard, it isn't "all just water under the bridge now"!

Posted by Danielle 2008-01-28 15:47|| 2008-01-28 15:47|| Front Page Top

#7 Are you sure he didn't head on a latch?

Posted by Whanter Guelph8176 2008-01-28 17:43|| 2008-01-28 17:43|| Front Page Top

#8 hit his*

Posted by Whanter Guelph8176 2008-01-28 17:43|| 2008-01-28 17:43|| Front Page Top

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