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...Keelty's watch it has also taken its intelligence-based approach abroad, helping police in other countries boost their skills, combat transnational crime, and keep the peace in trouble spots. Its sleuths may not be as visible as their high-profile boss, but they're out there: from Bogot? to Riyadh to Papua New Guinea, keeping an ear to the local bush telegraph and building high-tech information networks that span the globe. "The A.F.P. has demonstrated its capacity to serve the government of the day, the community and indeed the regional community," Keelty tells Time. "The work...
...weapons while it seeks to have other countries destroy theirs. If the U.S. were the only country possessing nukes, the whole world would be ruled by this superpower. We should be appreciative that other countries are trying to counteract monopolization of nuclear arms by one country. Christ?bal Ravisto-Ru?z Bogot?...
...army and police are concerned, it has been implicated in various other dubious adventures, such as a series of vigilante attacks on street criminals in Belfast and a plot to import handguns from Florida. Three I.R.A. suspects accused of teaching terror tactics to Colombian guerrillas go on trial in Bogot? soon, while operatives are also suspected of carrying out an audacious break-in last March, when burglars penetrated a police intelligence office in east Belfast, tied up a guard and coolly rifled through files containing details of police agents and their handlers. If the I.R.A. has indeed been spying...
...been destined for a literary rendezvous. One can almost hear Garc?a M?rquez asking, Who? What? Where? When? and Why? on every minutely detailed page of this factual account of political kidnappings orchestrated by Escobar. The writer?s respondents are mainly the survivors of a group of prominent residents of Bogot? whom the drug lord held hostage during 1990 and 1991. Most of the hostages were women, including Diana Turbay Quintero, daughter of a former Colombian President. A TV journalist, she imprudently walked into an Escobar trap, taking a film crew with her. By now the world is well acquainted with...
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