Tuesday 17 May 2011

Police thriller. How to catch an IMF bureaucrat

from Trade with Dave website:


Update: From the “can you hear me now?” file of global positioning systemic risk, here’s an excerpt from the Wall Street Journal regarding how Mr. Strauss-Kahn was apprehended:

New details emerged of the scramble to detain Mr. Strauss-Kahn in the hours after the alleged incident Saturday. A key moment came, police said, when Mr. Strauss-Kahn called the hotel to ask if he had left his cellphone there. A hotel security official fibbed and said he did have the phone—then asked for Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s location to meet him and return it. Police made the arrest at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, where Mr. Strauss-Kahn had boarded a flight for France.

more later