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Dominique Strauss-Kahn Accuser’s Detained “Fiancé” Amara Tarawally Speaks

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A call with an Arizona inmate tarnished the case of Strauss-Kahn's accuser. The man, who says he’s the maid’s fiancé, gives his side of the story to The Daily Beast.

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One of the most important and controversial characters in the complicated – some would say crumbling – criminal case in New York against erstwhile French presidential contender Dominique Strauss-Kahn is an illegal immigrant from Sierra Leone convicted on a drug charge and held in an Arizona

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