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He knew well the source of that scourge in the U. S.-installed Kabul regime, a kleptocracy of war - and drug-lords holed up amid American bodyguards in "poppy palaces," while clan-based "security forces" loot the countryside, sodomize its sons, and swell insurgent ranks.
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Or perhaps this might remind some of Iran Contra's banking operation using all sorts of trustworthy players from such high regarded organizations as the mafia and South American drug-lords?
Larisa Alexandrovna: Of Slush Fund, Insider Trading, and Terra Threats 2008
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Apart from the futility of trying to spray so vast an area as Helmand, drug-lords are the only possible counterweight to the Taliban.
Simon Jenkins: My Thoughts on a Recent Visit to Colombia/Afghanistan 2008
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In Colombia the central government enjoyed sufficient democratic legitimacy for its army to drive insurgents into the jungle and induce the drug-lords and paramilitaries to surrender (some of) their guns and power, albeit at a heavy cost in justice and human rights.
Simon Jenkins: My Thoughts on a Recent Visit to Colombia/Afghanistan 2008
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The have-nots merely have less and the rich hole up in fortresses and move around like drug-lords themselves, in armored limousines and surrounded by bodyguards.
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Instead of building a united front to push back the drug tidal wave, the dismissive and unfounded ANC and police response to community anger had merely deepened the perception that the police were protecting the drug-lords and arresting the law-abiding people.
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NP used gang-leaders and drug-lords to fight against the people's legitimate demand for a democratic South Africa.
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They'll track boats, track contraband, track the international drug-lords who now leap over borders with great ease, defeating the police through the clever use of fragmented national jurisdictions.
The Hacker Crackdown Sterling, Bruce 1992
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Alvaro Uribe, Colombia's president, says his country needs US support to tackle drug-lords and rebel groups.
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Alvaro Uribe, Colombia's president, says his country needs US support to tackle drug-lords and rebel groups.
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