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Monday, July 16, 2001

Li Peng, Jean-Claude Duvalier, Augusto Pinochet, Idi Amin: Europe’s most wanted

"There are places I dare not go because they have extradition treaties with places like Libya."

Newsday. Oliver North is wanted in some countries for his participation in the revenge bombing of Libya conducted by the US government, a small part of a new trend in European politics: requesting the testimony of foreign leaders for human rights trials, or worse, putting the foreign leaders themselves on trial. The leaders usually respond by making themselves quickly unavailable.'

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