Word: copse
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Batista, a U.S. citizen who works for ASI Global, a Houston-based security company, is a prominent expert on how to avert kidnapping. Ironically, he was nabbed in the industrial city of Saltillo after giving antiabduction seminars to businessmen last week - classes that few others but local cops knew about...
Batista's Dec. 10 kidnapping seems to point to a likely source of that scared life: Mexican police. Not because they fail to catch the kidnappers but because they often are the kidnappers. Sometimes narco-criminals, especially the notorious Zetas gang, do the deed; but since Mexico's abduction spree...
Mexico's criminal police are a product of the financial neglect and social scorn heaped on public law enforcement by the country's élite - the same ostentatiously upper-crust families who are now rampant kidnapping targets. Either way, cops are the main reason only 2% of Mexico's criminal...
The three had just emerged from a dramatic assault that had ended what seemed to be a period of relative quiet in the demonstrations. On Thursday, shortly before 3 p.m., a group of teenagers emerged from among a crowd of peaceful demonstrators led by teachers and hospital workers to put...
Having become a conspicuous figure to which like-minded radicals tend to flock has made El Aroud of particular interest to investigators. In December she was among several people arrested, but eventually released, on suspicion that they were planning to break a convicted jihadist out of prison. If her visibility...