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Raid on spy's home 'reveals details of Chirac's secret £30m bank account'

Thu, 24 May 2007 09:10:00 -0700

Scotsman - By Susan Bell - May. 24 (News Report) - LONG-STANDING rumours that the former French president Jacques Chirac holds a secret multi-million-euro bank account in Japan appear to have been confirmed by files seized from the home of a senior spy. Papers seized by two investigating magistrates from General Philippe Rondot, a former head of the DGSE, France's intelligence service, show Mr Chirac opened an account in the mid-1990s at Tokyo Sowa Bank, credited with the equivalent of £30 million. It is not known where the money came from, nor whether it is connected to various kick-back scandals to which Mr Chirac's name has been linked over the past decade.

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Blair convenes Cobra team as crisis in Iran escalates

Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:50:08 -0700

Scotsman - By Brian Brady - Mar. 25 (News Report) - The official notification, delivered in secure calls yesterday morning to senior Whitehall figures, was the latest dramatic behind-the-scenes move to get to grips with a crisis that is now engulfing the government.

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Victory for 'new Taleban' as they take Somali capital

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 18:27:11 -0700

Scotsman - By Mohamed Ali Bile, Mohamed Olad Hassan - Jun. 06 (News Report) - SLAMIC militias claimed to have control of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, yesterday, after winning a bloody three-month battle with the warlords who have dominated the city for 15 years.

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