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...billion a year from drugs, according to U.S. officials. Analysts say that could only result from moving the product themselves. The cash has allowed the AUC and the FARC to build well-equipped armies numbering as many as 20,000 members each, and has made them the de facto governments inside large swaths of Colombia. And their civil war no longer has much to do with ideology; it's far more about amassing wealth. But the AUC and the FARC wield power, and firepower, that a druglord like Escobar could only dream of. Should the groups eventually fill the more...
...publicized moves to curb radicals in Saudi schools, mosques and charities, the government remains reluctant to fight a war against extremist ideas. The regime continues to allow Saudi imams to rail against Crusaders and Jews in much the same manner that al-Qaeda does. When the country's de facto ruler, Crown Prince Abdullah, blamed the Yanbu outrage on Zionists, reformers felt he was once again appeasing hard-line opinion. Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi ambassador to the U.S., seemed to acknowledge his government's shortcomings last week when he publicly called for mobilization against al-Qaeda...
Sure, sophomore forward Matt Stehle was the de facto starter in a depleted front court, but coming off an injury-plagued freshman campaign, no one expected much from the 6’8 post player from Newton, Mass...
...warn against recognizing the document, which he rejects as the work of an occupying authority and therefore as having no legitimate standing. Sistani's objections are not simply to the process by which the interim constitution was adopted; he has forcefully rejected its provision for a de facto veto power over any new constitution by organized minorities such as the Kurds or the Shiites. For the same reason, Iraq's Kurdish parties, who want to maintain the de facto autonomy verging on independence of their region, are livid, and have warned that they may boycott next January's election...
...will continue to chase this deviant group until we eradicate them." CROWN PRINCE ABDULLAH, Saudia Arabia's de facto ruler, following an assault by Saudi forces on a housing complex in Khobar, where Islamic extremists killed Saudi and foreign oil workers and took many hostages...