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Meet the new jihad
These three stories explore the Iraqi insurgency and the fighting conditions U.S. forces faced. "Meet the new jihad" explains the transformation of the Iraqi insurgency from a guerilla campaign led by former members of the Baathist regime to an international jihadist movement.. "Enemy with many faces" reveals the divisions with the insurgency's disparate members. "Into the hot zone" follows U.S. soldiers as they engage in brutal urban combat.
Tags: Iraq; jihad; insurgency; Abu Musab al-Zarqawi; war
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The Guns of Opa-Locka: How US Dealers Arm the World
The Center for Investigative Reporting reveals "how terrorists can manipulate lax US gun laws in order to buy guns in the United States both for use within this country and for export to conflicts overseas." The center "uncovered numerous cases of groups on the US terrorist watch list -- such as the FARC and ELN guerilla movements in Colombia, the IRA of Ireland and the Hezbollah of Lebanon -- buying guns in the United States and illegally shipping them to their home countries to fuel the conflicts there." The story was released November 14 and published December 2 in The Nation.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; terrorism; gun laws; FARC; ELN; Colombia; Hezbollah; IRA; United States; loopholes
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U.S. Military Aid to Latin America Linked to Human Rights abuses
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists at the Center for Public Integrity investigates the involvement of the United States in "the biggest guerilla war since Vietnam." The 35,000-word story reveals that "hundred of American troops, spies and civilian contract employees are on the ground in Colombia and neighboring lands, helping to coordinate a $1.3 billion counterdrug program that will probably continue for many years." The reporters finds evidence that the American military aid to Colombia, Peru and Mexico has been implicated in human rights abuses. The team analyses the significance of U.S. economic interests in Colombia, Peru, Brazil and Mexico, and looks specifically at the American oil and trade interests as a key factor in the so-called "Colombia plan," another name for the drug war in Colombia.
Tags: FOIA; energy; oil; economics; business; intelligence; Latin America; lobbying; Congress; government; defense; drugs; smuggling; coca plantations; petroleum; paramilitaries; national security
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As Pakistan, India Join U.S. in Fighting Terror, Kashmir Gets in Way
The Wall Street Journal looks at the potential impact that territorial conflicts between Pakistan and India can have on the "America's war on terrorism." The story reveals that even though the U.S.A. has Pakistani support for its global alliance against terrorism, Pakistan "remains a dangerous crucible for extremists processing a jihad on their own." A recent example, pointed out in the article, is an explosion in Indian-controlled Kashmir, a region in which both India and Pakistan vie for power. A major finding, based on interviews with American military analysts, is that Pakistani Kashmir fighters have been trained in camps in Afghanistan, established by Osama bin Laden. "This move cemented Pakistan's support for Mr. bin Laden's hosts, the fundamentalist Taliban rulers of most of Afghanistan," the Journal reports.
Tags: terrorism; Muslims; Kashmir; nuclear weapons; separatism; intelligence; Colin Powell; guerillas
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Diamonds of Death
Lobbying efforts by the World Diamond Council has lead to significant changes in legislation that would attempt to keep conflict diamonds out of the world market. The Conflict Diamonds Act of 2001 was called a "trade lawyers dream" by Rep. Tony Hall, D-Ohio. Meanwhile guerillas and warlords continue to cash in on diamond profits.
Tags: diamonds; conflict diamonds; Revolutinary United Front; De Beers; World Diamond Council; Tony Hall; Conflict Diamonds Act; Frank Wolf; Cynthia McKinney; Charles Taylor; Lazare Kaplan International; Rough Controls
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Plan Columbia
Colombia is now the third-largest recipient of US aid in the world after Israel and Egypt. The two-year, $3.2 billion aid package is to help fight "the war on drugs," by eradicating half of the nation's 300,000 acres of coca fields within five years. Yet others consider the escalating US military presence and its technological aid to the right wing paramilitary forces a thinly veiled military intervention, stabilizing the government in power against guerillas in the coca-producing regions. Kidnappings are up sharply, and others fear they'll increase even more if drugs profits are stymied.
Tags: Columbia; US Aid; War on Drugs; anti-narcotics; School of the Americas; U.S. military advisors; toxic herbicides; Plan Colombia; Pais Libre; kidnapping; FARC; ELN; death squads; human rights; Pentagon's Southern Command; Amnesty International; Paz Colombia; social inequality
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The nation of Honduras has begun to confront a truth it has long suspected-that hundreds of its citizens were kidnapped, tortured and killed in the 1980s by a secret army unit trained and supported by the Central Intelligence Agency. This Baltimore Sun series investigates how the CIA and the U.S. Embassy ignored numerous crimes by Honduran Army Battalion 316, including murder and torture, in order to keep U.S. dollars flowing into Honduras for the war against communism in Central America. (June 11 - 18,1995)
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Tragedy in Iraq
Village Voice (New York) gives account of the Kurdish rebellion against Iraq, and the circumstances surrounding the murder of the only journalist to die covering the Persian Gulf War.
Tags: war journalism; kurds; kurdistan; guerilla; irewar03; gulf war; republican guard; gad goss