Word: ambusher
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...testify before a Senate committee, it all starts with a President and his men deciding to insert a small guerrilla force into Colombia to hit one of the cocaine cartels. This is done in deep secrecy, and among those left out of the loop is Jack. After escaping an ambush, he learns that the men in suits are selling out the troops in the field and even trying to do a deal with one of the drug lords...
Samper said he would welcome a federal investigation. "These charges will not stand up," he said, asserting that he is a victim, not a collaborator, of the drug lords. In 1989 he was shot 14 times by hitmen for drug lords in a Bogota airport ambush, but miraculously survived. For all that, allegations he and his party were accepting money from the narco-barons were so persistent that last October Gelbard traveled to Bogota to warn Samper to stay clear of their money or risk damaging U.S.-Colombia relations should he be elected...
Recognizing the challenge of proving any defendant had fired any of the fatal shots, prosecutors charged them with conspiracy to murder, in addition to murder. Conspiracy would require the jury to decide they had been involved in an agreement or a plan to ambush the agents. Calling more than 120 witnesses, including ATF agents, Texas Rangers and gun dealers, prosecutors tried to prove the 10 men and one woman on trial -- three of whom were away from the compound on the day of the shooting -- knew in advance of the impending ATF raid and were bent on killing federal officers...
Under a harsh military crackdown on the Islamic Front, outlawed in 1992, the battle for Algeria has only worsened. Armed militants ambush police, assassinate officials and murder intellectuals and others opposed to the fundamentalist movement. Security forces arrest suspects at will, torture prisoners and sentence alleged rebels to death in extraconstitutional courts. The government attributes the daily civilian slayings to the Islamists. But Algerian and Western sources say antifundamentalist death squads, suspected of links to the security services, also operate during the nightly curfews, kidnapping Islamists or their relatives from home and dumping their bodies nearby...
Police chief Willie Williams appealed to the Los Angeles public for an end to violence last week after the third armed attack on officers in two weeks. No one was injured in the latest ambush shooting, but, Williams declared, "people think it's open season on the police...