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More importantly, head of Dulles airport 25 years ago...

 

 

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Ahmed Chalabi, who, for a second, was at the centre of world politics, trying to bring order to the Iraq clusterfuck after the Bush invasion (which he himself pushed for), has died of a heart attack at 70:

 

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/03/us-iraq-chalabi-idUSKCN0SS0MW20151103

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Poland's former interior minister Czeslaw Kiszczak is dead at 90:

 

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/05/us-poland-kiszczak-idUSKCN0SU2VQ20151105#grG4xFhc6xuOLOIG.97

 

He was involved in introducing martial law in Poland in the last decade of communism and cracked down on Solidarnosc. Just this year, he received a suspended 2-year prison sentence for that. At the end of the communist regime, he realized that his side had lost and was a transitional PM and negotiated with the opposition and Lech Walesa.

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Poland's former interior minister Czeslaw Kiszczak is dead at 90:

 

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/05/us-poland-kiszczak-idUSKCN0SU2VQ20151105#grG4xFhc6xuOLOIG.97

 

He was involved in introducing martial law in Poland in the last decade of communism and cracked down on Solidarnosc. Just this year, he received a suspended 2-year prison sentence for that. At the end of the communist regime, he realized that his side had lost and was a transitional PM and negotiated with the opposition and Lech Walesa.

Might want to let Spade Cooley know

http://www.deathlist.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8081&p=240618

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Yitzhak Navon, Israel's 5th President has died at 94. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Yitzhak-Navon-Israels-fifth-president-dies-at-the-age-of-94-432309

 

Edit: 3 DDP teams hit when the UK obit hits.

 

Edit 2: Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3308259/Yitzhak-Navon-former-Israeli-president-dead-94.html Nice pic of him with Jimmy Carter there!

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Yitzhak Navon, Israel's 5th President has died at 94. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Yitzhak-Navon-Israels-fifth-president-dies-at-the-age-of-94-432309

 

Edit: 3 DDP teams hit when the UK obit hits.

 

Edit 2: Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3308259/Yitzhak-Navon-former-Israeli-president-dead-94.html Nice pic of him with Jimmy Carter there!

that leaves Shimon Peres as the oldest former Israeli PM and President..I'd put money on him making it to 100 though

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Scandal mired Nigerian politician Diezani Alison-Madueke, the current president of OPEC, is apparently suffering from cancer. She was arrested in the UK by the National Crime Agency earlier this year, who wanted to speak to her about bribery and money laundering, leading to rumours that she may be exaggerating her illness to avoid further legal action.

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Scandal mired Nigerian politician Diezani Alison-Madueke, the current president of OPEC, is apparently suffering from cancer. She was arrested in the UK by the National Crime Agency earlier this year, who wanted to speak to her about bribery and money laundering, leading to rumours that she may be exaggerating her illness to avoid further legal action.

The arrest was pure window dressing, this lady will never be put before a UK court. Too many people of power & influence would suffer embarrassment.

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Kenn Pearson, former Isle of Wight Labour parliamentary candidate, councillor and backbone of the local party, has died at the age of 75.
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Former Iloilo Gov. Niel Tupas Sr., 82, died early Tuesday morning due to lingering illness.

Tupas Sr., who would have celebrated his birthday on Friday, had been confined at the hospital for about a month. He died at the Philippine Heart Center in Quezon City around 1:35 a.m. Tuesday.

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Henry S. Rowen, economist, policymaker and president of the RAND think tank when they produced the Pentagon Papers detailing the lies of the Johnson administration regarding the Vietnam War, has died at 90:

 

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_29138953/think-tank-leader-at-time-pentagon-papers-dies

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Speaker of the House of the state of Virginia.

Thomas Moss Jr., died Thursday after suffering a heart attack while visiting family in South Carolina. He was 87. Moss, a Democrat from Norfolk, entered Virginia's House of Delegates in 1966 and was a member for 36 years. He served as speaker from 1991 to 2000. He later became Norfolk city treasurer, a position he held for more than a decade.

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http://m.valdostadailytimes.com/news/national_international/former-virginia-house-speaker-norfolk-treasurer-dies-at/article_995585f7-dca6-5d64-9dcf-eeed246aca9c.html?mode=jqm

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Edwin Edwards, 88, lovably corrupt former governor of Louisiana hospitalised with pneunomia. But they expect him to recover:

 

http://news.yahoo.com/ex-louisiana-governor-edwin-edwards-hospitalized-pneumonia-060527223.html

Quite a phrase "lovably corrupt".

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Edwin Edwards, 88, lovably corrupt former governor of Louisiana hospitalised with pneunomia. But they expect him to recover: http://news.yahoo.com/ex-louisiana-governor-edwin-edwards-hospitalized-pneumonia-060527223.html

Quite a phrase "lovably corrupt".

They do love him here in da bayou. He no sooner got out of federal prison than he was welcomed back with open arms and he wrote an autobiography that was an instant best seller, around these parts at least.

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http://www.edwinedwardsbooks.com And comments therein....

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