Word: extortionate
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“It was a very explicit form of extortion,” he says.
Aceh's residents have already paid an appalling price. More than 10,000 have died in the fighting and countless others have been raped, tortured and robbed of their homes and livelihoods. But their lot is of little concern to the combatants. GAM claims to want independence; the military intends...
That leaves most of the country outside of the capital under the de facto control of a patchwork of often feuding warlords whose links to Kabul are often tenuous and many of whom have reverted to extortion, drug production and other illicit revenue streams. Even in Kabul itself, Karzai finds...
(2 of 3) Those roots run deep. According to police charges made public last week, the conspirators were led by two men: Milorad "Legija" Lukovic, who is still at large, possibly overseas, and Dusan Spasojevic, who was killed resisting arrest. Both men served with the Red Berets, a special unit...
Regardless of the tone taken in Washington, however, North Korea appears bent on ratcheting up the confrontation. Many Korea analysts had long viewed Pyongyang's nuclear brinkmanship as part of a pattern of extortion - acting in a menacing way, and then promising good behavior in exchange for economic assistance. But...