Amy Waters Yarsinske, a former intelligence officer and Pulitzer Prize nominee, author of No One Left Behind: The Lieutenant Commander Michael Scott Speicher Story, began her dogged pursuit of the current tidal wave of support years ago--and is now taking up the case of Ted Maher.
In yesterday's speech to the UN, President Bush referred to Speicher:
During his speech to the United Nations on September 12, 2002, President Bush alluded to Captain Speicher's imprisonment in Iraq. He recalled each instance that Iraq has defied a United Nation Security Council resolution. He referred to Captain Speicher when he recounted how Iraq had ignored resolutions 686 and 687, as quoted below:
"In 1991, the U.N. Security Council, through Resolutions 686 and 687, demanded that Iraq return all prisoners from Kuwait and other lands. Iraq's regime agreed. It broke its promise. Last year the Secretary-General's high-level coordinator of this issue reported that Kuwaiti, Saudi, Indian, Syrian, Lebanese, Iranian, Egyptian, Bahraini, and Omani nationals remain unaccounted for -- more than 600 people. One American pilot is among them."
Even after years of imprisonment, the tireless efforts of friends and family, and the penetrating journalism of a first-class writer brought the closed case of an American through the bureaucratic warehouse into the President's speech to the U.N.
In similar fashion, the murder of Martha Moxley was an unavenged outrage smoldering for years before the crusader in formal attire nailed the perp to the barn door.
Skakel is doing twenty to life, and Dominick Dunne turns his crime-solving skills to right the record for Ted Maher in the mysterious death of Edmond Safra.
Dunne put it bluntly to King: "I am absolutely fighting every month for Ted Maher... "
Captain Dreyfus was framed for treason, imprisoned on Devil's Island, championed by Emile Zola, freed, and pardoned.
As the efforts of a dedicated group of family and friends led to a congressional resolution and presidential intercession that freed Navy veteran Ed Pope from Moscow's Lefortovo Prison, so, too, will the persistent efforts of Ted Maher's family, friends and champions increase the pressure on Monaco to free him.
The brutal murder of an inconvenient world-class billionaire banker has been covered up by the police state which harbors the world's largest money laundry.
Every instrument of extortion and propaganda have been used with force, if not with finesse.
But all the principality's p.r. hacks bow to Hamlet: