Caco

At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York, to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers.

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He admitted fatally shooting Pedro "Caco" Cruz in April 2001 on the orders of the gang's leader,

CourierPostOnline.com - News 2010

The Butlers were waited on by a staff of servants—including a former Caco rebel who kept dedicated watch over the children, once tracking down and threatening to kill a voodoo man who had tried to put a curse on Snooks by pinching her bare leg.

Devil Dog David Talbot 2010

Butler gave the signal to attack and marines from the 15th Company poured through the breach, engaged the Cacos in hand-to-hand combat, took the bastion and crushed the Caco resistance.

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Rival units: Bosnian government officials seem embarrassed by Caco and the divisions within the city that his crusade has exposed.

Crossing An Invisible Line 2008

Following a concentrated drive, several different detachments of marines gradually closed in on the old French bastion fort in an effort to cut off all avenues of retreat for the Caco bandits.

Think Progress » Right Wing Swiftboats Generals Who Called on Rumsfeld to Resign 2006

Caco told a local reporter that the idea came to him last winter, when he brought a wounded soldier to the city-only to find the cafes full of people with government ID cards exempting them from frontline duty.

Crossing An Invisible Line 2008

He is Musan (Caco) Topalovic, the flamboyant commander of the 2,800-man 10th Mountain Brigade, a leading exponent of the theory that the siege could be broken if only Izetbegovic would make everyone pitch in at the front.

Crossing An Invisible Line 2008

Recently Caco tried to press-gang 30 leading members of the military police, setting off a street battle between branches of the Bosnian armed forces that left one dead and several wounded.

Crossing An Invisible Line 2008

Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that Musan (Caco) Topalovic was killed in 2003.

Monumental War 2007