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It says that it’s not about whether he got money for being employed as a mechanic, that it would have kept him from getting involved in paramilitarism.
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It says that it’s not about whether he got money for being employed as a mechanic, that it would have kept him from getting involved in paramilitarism.
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It says that it’s not about whether he got money for being employed as a mechanic, that it would have kept him from getting involved in paramilitarism.
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Unlike the rest of Britain, though, Northern Ireland has a history of violent paramilitarism that draws on the disaffected young, the politically and economically disenfranchised.
Rory's a hero for all of us, but my homeland is as divided as ever | Sean O'Hagan 2011
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Unlike the rest of Britain, though, Northern Ireland has a history of violent paramilitarism that draws on the disaffected young, the politically and economically disenfranchised.
Rory's a hero for all of us, but my homeland is as divided as ever | Sean O'Hagan 2011
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Jefferson's poor grasp of history and sloppy analysis reaches new, disturbing heights when he suggests that BPP and Tea Party paramilitarism are the same.
Crystal M. Hayes: What Really Separates the Tea Party from the Black Panther Party Crystal M. Hayes 2010
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This article concluded that, in spite of President Uribe's denial of the existence of any paramilitarism in Colombia, there are as many as 100 new paramilitary "gangs" in Colombia, "including as many as 10,000 fighters."
Dan Kovalik: Colombia Confirms It Cannot Meet Necessary FTA Prerequisites; Death Squads on Rise 2009
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Suddenly, I have the feel of being in a smoky bar in the paranoid world of 1970s paramilitarism, seeing connecting threads and secret agendas everywhere.
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If they do not, it will become a “tragic victory for the politicians, economically powerful individuals and military officers who made paramilitarism possible in Colombia.”
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Blackwater USA is the face of paramilitarism on US streets as the "war on terrorism" comes to a neighborhood near you with New Orleans the first test case to see if the company can operate here the way it does in Iraq and get away with it.
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