Former deputy United Nations envoy to Afghanistan, U.S. Ambassador Peter Galbraith is suing his former employer for being fired without due process last September.
Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon was said to fire Mr. Galbraith after staff members for the UN mission to Afghanistan fell into "open rebellion".
A senior US diplomat familiar with UN Afghan mission said,"It is pretty weird that at the United Nations, if you were running around pinching derrieres of female staff, or embezzling funds, it would take months before you were fired," the diplomat continued. "Or if you were merely incompetent, it could take a year or more. But if you happen to say something is wrong about massive fraud in an election, you'd be gone in a week."
Earlier this year Galbraith, who had been the top American advisor in Kurdistan, Iraq and a leading voice for Kurdish separatism, admitted he had business "activities" in the Kurdish oil sector.
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A US General in Norther Iraq has added pregnancy to the list of offenses for which soldiers may face court martial.
Gen. Cucolo said, "I've got a mission to do, I'm given a finite number of soldiers with which to do it and I need every one of them.
"So I'm going to take every measure I can to keep them all strong, fit and with me for the twelve months we are in the combat zone," he said.
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Prominent Iranian dissident cleric Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri has died of heart failure. Riot police already line the streets of Qom as opposition leaders Mirhossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi have urged followers to attend his funeral scheduled for Monday morning at 5:30am. This could get ugly.
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Clive Crook's op-ed: "The honest case for a bungled health care reform"
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