1. Does the failure of defense trial counsel to follow specific orders from the District Court, as to how to preserve testimony of material witnesses located outside the country, constitute ineffective assistance of counsel?

2. Does Petitioner bear the burden under Strickland v. Washington of demonstrating that material witnesses definitively would have been both available and able to testify, had defense trial counsel followed the orders of the District Court, in order to establish prejudice?

Does the failure of defense trial counsel to follow specific orders from the District Court constitute ineffective assistance of counsel?