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We now have a name and a longer story from FoxNews.com -

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One of the targets U.N. Oil-for Food investigation, Alexander Yakovlev, was stripped of his diplomatic immunity Monday and taken into custody by federal authorities, a U.N. spokesman announced Monday.
The U.S. attorney's office took Yakovlev into custody hours after Paul Volcker, the man in charge of the U.N.-approved probe into Oil-for-Food, fingered Yakovlev as one of two main U.N. officials involved in the program's corruption.

48 posted on 08/08/2005 11:56:33 AM PDT by steveegg (Real torture is taking a ride with Sen Ted "Swimmer" Kennedy in a 1968 Oldsmobile off a short bridge)

was stripped of his diplomatic immunity Monday

How do you strip someone "of his diplomatic immunity"?

157 posted on 08/09/2005 7:15:06 PM PDT by A. Pole (Mandarin Meng-tzu: "The duty of the ruler is to ensure the prosperous livelihood of his subjects.")