The same official said the building manager told internal affair investigators nothing untoward happened.
His travails as a would-be legislator, the authorities clearly believe, are an internal affair, not for foreign ears.
Warily, when he visited Moscow last year, he agreed that the war in Chechnya was Russia's internal affair.
Contrary to Obama's current line, Iran's politics are not a strictly internal affair.
The athletic director apparently preferred to keep the situation an internal affair and talk things over with Sandusky instead of notifying the state's child welfare agency.
Unlike in Rwanda and Yugoslavia, the Security Council cannot force an independent tribunal on Phnom Penh because China would likely exercise its veto, arguing that the matter is Cambodia's internal affair.
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Remarkably, the American and British governments, in public at least, were happy to treat this as an internal Pakistani affair.
In the last Chechen war, the rest of the world stood aside, vaguely muttering that it was an internal Russian affair.
Anwar's ordeal may look like an internal UMNO affair, but to some Malaysians the episode has stirred worrisome questions about the country's reputation for fairness.
Rather than contend with the destructive power and influence of Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias in southern Iraq to US strategic interests, US military commanders and US diplomatic chiefs in Iraq brush them off as an internal Iraqi affair.
But they deter such action most effectively when China is left guessing about what they might do, while the outsiders still make it clear that military moves against Taiwan would not be considered merely an internal Chinese affair.
Some Palestinian officials have speculated that a Sharon win would lead to out-and-out war, while others -- including Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat -- have said little more about the pending vote than to note that the election is an internal Israeli affair.
The agency was next accused of covering up the results of an internal investigation into the affair.
Like Mr Kerviel, who used his knowledge of the bank's plumbing to create fictitious trades to cover his tracks, Mr Adoboli is alleged by sources close to an internal investigation of the affair to have bet the bank's money on the future price of various stock indices and to have then hidden these moves by creating offsetting fake transactions.
One reason, say observers, may be internal jockeying ahead of the party congress in April, a five-yearly affair.
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