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Big Oil’s Heart of Darkness
The convictions handed down by a French court this week against arms dealers, influence peddlers, and former government officials, including a son of the late president François Mitterrand, expose a vivid picture of the world in which Dick Cheney used to do business when he was the head of Halliburton in the 1990s. The case did not touch on the former vice president's activities directly, and he is not implicated in any alleged wrongdoing. But now that a verdict has been reached in this nine-year-old French case, I expect the door will be open to investigations touching many corners of this fetid world of corruption. (Click here to follow Christopher Dickey)
October 28, 2009 | International | By Christopher Dickey
http://www.newsweek.com/id/220008
‘Everyone Has Forgotten You’
For day after day, month after month, following his imprisonment in Iran on June 21, documentary filmmaker and NEWSWEEK correspondent Maziar Bahari did not see the face of his interrogator. Bahari, 42, was blindfolded or faced a wall as the accusations and questions—often it was hard to tell the difference—kept coming at him. And always the interrogator told him the same thing: "No one on the outside cares about you. Everyone has forgotten you." Nothing could have been further from the truth.
October 22, 2009 | International | By Christopher Dickey
http://www.newsweek.com/id/219034
Silvio, it's Time to Go
Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's record of intimidating and outfoxing his enemies, rewriting laws to suit himself, and generally leading his public as well as private life in flagrante delicto puts him in a particularly Italian pantheon. One thinks of Nero, or the Borgias, of bread and circuses, debauchery and corruption. Never mind that this is 2009; consider just a few of the scandals that have rocked Berlusconi's throne in the past few months. There was the allegation by his estranged wife that he was flirting with underage girls; the sleazy sex tapes made by a call girl who said she serviced Il Cavaliere, as he's called, and that he offered her a seat in the European Parliament; and the allegations of an influence peddler and cocaine dealer that he'd furnished hookers for Berlusconi's parties in Rome. All that on top of paparazzi photos taken at the prime minister's villa in Sardinia that showed at least one distinguished guest cavorting like a priapic satyr.
October 12, 2009 | International | By Christopher Dickey
http://www.newsweek.com/id/217155
Letters: October 5, 2009
Roxas, Greenwood Lake, New York 'Sarkozy's Obama Complex' French President Nicolas Sarkozy is described by Christopher Dickey as having an "Obama complex." Nothing could be further from the truth. While it is a fact that Sarkozy has a
October 03, 2009 | Letters to the Editor
http://www.newsweek.com/id/216695
The New TNT
Al Qaeda has made a horrifying—if bizarre—advance in terrorist tradecraft. As recently reported by my friend Frank Gardner, security correspondent for the BBC, the suicide bomber who tried unsuccessfully to blow up Saudi Arabia's counterterrorism chief in August actually had the explosives inside his body. It's possible the bomb—which was made from materials that wouldn't set off metal detectors—was swallowed or stitched into him in some fashion, but according to one usually authoritative Saudi official, the explosives had been inserted in the terrorist's rectum.
September 29, 2009 | Voices - Christopher Dickey | By Christopher Dickey
http://www.newsweek.com/id/216401
Sarkozy’s Obama Envy
Facing down Iran, French president Nicolas Sarkozy stood shoulder to shoulder with President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in Pittsburgh last week. Or so it might be said. The statements of all three were consistent as they denounced the Islamic Republic's construction of a secret nuclear facility. But in this stage show of solidarity, body language sent a different message. Obama and Brown really did stand side by side. Sarkozy stood apart, looking a little like he'd been asked to stand as best man at a stranger's wedding.
September 26, 2009 | International | By Christopher Dickey
http://www.newsweek.com/id/216240
Inside the Zazi Takedown
"The ticking bomb" is a cliché in movies about cops and spies and terrorists, but sometimes in real life, with real terrorists, it's the real deal. And that's what the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the New York City Police Department saw themselves up against in the case of Najibullah Zazi, the 24-year-old Afghan immigrant indicted Thursday for “conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction.” Did the cops make mistakes? Some. Did Zazi find out the Feds were on to him sooner than they wanted him to know? Yes. Did the bomb go off? No. Or not yet, anyway.
September 26, 2009 | International | By Christopher Dickey
http://www.newsweek.com/id/216262
Muammar Kaddafi, Statesman
Leader will look strange and act strange. He is, yes, still crazy after all these years. But, then, so are we. Christopher Dickey is also the author of The Sleeper: A Novel and Summer of Deliverance: A Memoir of Father and Son .
September 17, 2009 | International | By Christopher Dickey
http://www.newsweek.com/id/215588
Bahari in Line for Spanish Prize
Maziar Bahari, the documentary filmmaker and NEWSWEEK correspondent imprisoned in Iran for the last 11 weeks, is a leading contender for the Prince of Asturias Award for Concord, one of the world's most prestigious honors.
September 07, 2009 | International | By Christopher Dickey
http://www.newsweek.com/id/215018
The Taliban’s Drug Dealers
crisscrossing the country," tracking the growth and sale of narcotics. In a series of interviews with NEWSWEEK's Christopher Dickey before the recent election in Afghanistan, Costa talked about the surprising drug story behind the war story there
August 28, 2009 | International
http://www.newsweek.com/id/214117
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Silvio, it's Time to Go

Letters: October 5, 2009

The New TNT

Sarkozy’s Obama Envy

Inside the Zazi Takedown

Muammar Kaddafi, Statesman

Bahari in Line for Spanish Prize

The Taliban’s Drug Dealers

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