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In Trinidad, former FIFA executive seen as 'our Robin Hood'

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) -- In one moment, Jack Warner is on TV telling his countrymen he fears for his life. An hour later, he's standing on a packed narrow street at a political rally, boasting that he fears nothing.

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Contradictions are a constant for Warner, who grew up with almost nothing in Trinidad and Tobago, and became a rich and powerful vice president of FIFA, world soccer's governing body.