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To: Irenic

Maybe may be not I would not trust any crash reporting from 3rd world countries. All they see is dollar signs when a foreigner is involved in some thing like this


10 posted on 08/02/2013 10:02:22 AM PDT by riverrunner
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To: riverrunner
This is an AP story.

The American driver of the SUV, Joshua Walde, was an information management officer at the Nairobi embassy when he got in the crash on his way home the evening of July 11. He gave a statement to police but because he has diplomatic immunity he was not detained.

The U.S. government is concerned about the impact the accident could have on U.S.-Kenya relations, a U.S. government official said. The official noted that embassy employees are typically evacuated for medical evaluations after traumatic events but also are flown out of a country to avoid any possible retribution or attacks from others involved in an accident.

Walde is an 11-year employee of the State Department who has worked in Kazakhstan, Uruguay and Croatia. Shortly after the crash, Walde updated his work history on the networking site LinkedIn to put his time in Nairobi in the past tense, from July 2012 to July 2013. After the Facebook group noticed the updated resume and pointed to that as evidence that Walde would not return to face charges or help victims, the LinkedIn account was deleted, though a cached version is still available through Google.

20 posted on 08/02/2013 10:19:23 AM PDT by kabar
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