They said Mr Shaikh's clothes had been laid out for collection when they met him for the last time.

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According to Mr Aliev, his Armenian counterpart Levon Ter-Petrosian told him when they met in Strasbourg earlier this month that Armenia also, basically, accepts the Minsk Group proposals.

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But when banking chiefs met Mr King on March 20th, they asked him to do more.

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Sometimes, she remembered him as he had been when they first met: his charm, his quiet sense of humor, the little games he had played to amuse her.

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Yet a government memorandum indicates that he met with them after the Clatskanie-Seattle fires when they called him down for correcting misinformation in their communiques.

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Tom Berson, a California cryptographer hired by Skype in 2005 to evaluate its security, says he met the programmers, who told him they grew up when Estonia was part of the Soviet Union and had the perils of "wiretapping in mind" when creating Skype.

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Gary Aked, who first met Saad in the early 1990s when they worked together, does not believe his work would have put him in any danger.

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