Word: corruption
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...Banality of Terror It would be convenient to think of Qasab as a psychopath, exploited by cynical handlers who corrupt young men in the name of religion. In fact, his origins are ordinary. In his confession, Qasab, now 21, says he was born in the village of Faridkot, in Pakistan's Punjab province. He is said to have been a typical teenager, not especially religious, albeit with a reputation as a troublemaker. His family is poor - his father sells fried snacks at a bus station - but owns its own house. Qasab attended the local primary school; at 13, he left...
...which answers to Tymoshenko, were raided on Wednesday by armed agents from the state security service, the SBU, which is controlled by Yushchenko. The SBU says it is investigating Naftogaz for "misappropriating" gas that belongs to private energy company RosUkrEnergy; Tymoshenko says the SBU is being used by a "corrupt group" in a fight for gas she says belongs to Ukraine. "There's no such thing as a truce between cats and dogs," says Mykola Stasyuk, 53, as he waits in yet another bank line...
...entire population in the provinces affected by the Taliban insurgency. That could mean another 15,000 troops, or more, on top of the 17,000 already sent. It might even succeed; the Afghan people are terrified by the Taliban, but they do want law and order - which the corrupt Karzai government has failed to provide and Petraeus-style counterinsurgency tactics emphasize. But why expend that sort of effort on a sideshow...
...good idea: I couldn't persuade any of them to share my rental house in the city's walled Old Town. If they had heard of Cartagena at all, it was only as the backdrop of the classic 1980s romantic caper Romancing the Stone, a place of corrupt juntas and bodice-ripper-reading drug dealers - a parody turned deadly serious by four decades of civil war, Pablo Escobar and cocaine cartels. But what my friends - who spent their vacations standing in line at Space Mountain or screaming down the Atlantis waterslide - failed to realize is that Cartagena has become...
...office in Paris and revealed the names on its accounts, the Swiss passed a law in 1934 making such disclosures criminal. Years later, Swiss banks both sheltered the assets of German Jews and accepted looted Nazi gold (and later set up a $1.25 billion compensation fund for Holocaust victims). Corrupt leaders ranging from the Philippines' Ferdinand Marcos to Nigeria's Sani Abacha have used Swiss banks to hide ill-gotten gains. (See the top 10 financial collapses...