Sean Price argued that publicity about the outcome could prejudice jurors in the event of a trial following the outcome of Operation Sacristy.

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Four other men apprehended in the operation also were brought to New York for trial, the Drug Enforcement Administration and federal prosecutors said in a joint release.

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Concerted pressure from aid donors would win his co-operation, however reluctant, in bringing Khmer Rouge leaders to trial.

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Rengen also knows that of over 70 people charged by the Southern District of New York in Operation Perfect Hedge, all have either pleaded guilty or lost at trial.

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Earlier, the judge said he was merely a pawn in the operation who had taken great courage to plead guilty while his father was still on trial.

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On Tuesday, 25 former officials tied to the operation appeared in court for the first day of what officials say could be a trial of more than two years.

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To find out, the 200 patients in the Houston trial are being given an amnesia-inducing drug to blot out the memory of the operation before they are whisked into the operating room.

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In his guise as an international statesman and peace-broker (and therefore, by implication, very different from Mr Milosevic or Saddam Hussein at his trial in Baghdad), the well-spoken and worldly Mr Taylor has been offering full co-operation with the court.

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Khan, a central figure in Operation Perfect Hedge, was one of the original cooperators with the government and she testified against Whitman at trial.

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At the trial, the prosecution said that during a 2008 sting operation by U.S. drug enforcement agents in Thailand, Bout believed he was selling weapons to Colombian guerrillas.

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