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Washington mdash; A former Haitian senator is facing charges in the United States stemming from his alleged involvement in last year s assassination of Jovenel Moiuml e, Haiti s president, the Justice Department announced Monday.Joseph Joel John, 51, was extradited from Jamaica to the U.S. on Friday and appeared before a federal magistrate judge in Miami on Monday afternoon, according to federal authorities. He is charged with conspiring to commit murder or kidnappin
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stanley cups lting in death, knowing or intending that such material support would be used to prepare for or carry out the conspiracy to kill or kidnap.He faces a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted. John is the third person to be charged for his role in the assassination plot targeting Moiuml e, who was killed by a squad of gunmen in an overnight raid at his home in July. The president s wife was wounded in what the Haitian embassy in Washington s
stanley becher aid was a well-coordinated attack by a highly trained and heavily armed group, while their daughter hid in a bedroom and escaped.Mario Antonio Palacios, a 43-year-old Colombian national, and Rodolphe Jaar, a 49-year-old dual Haitian-Chilean citizen, were both arrested in January. Federal prosecutors allege John and up to 20 others participated in the plot against Moiuml e, and John helped secure vehicles and tried to obtain guns for the attack against the Haitia Zkaf Bill Clinton to Officiate Anthony Weiner s Wedding
Republican John McCain pushed back on Wednesday against Democratic criticism that he misstated when the troop buildup ordered by President Bush began, saying elements were put in place before Bush announced the strategy in early 2007.He told reporters during an unscheduled stop in a super market that, what the Bush administration calls the surge was actually made up of a number of components, some of which began before the president s order for more troops.It s all a matter of semantics, he suggested. McCain said Army Col. Sean MacFarland started carrying out elements of a new counterinsu
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