Word: gangland
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...post-June force) unfamiliar with the country, lacking in hands-on experience and trained to operate quite differently. In January before the House Armed Services Committee, Marine Corps Commandant General Michael Hagee said his incoming troops have been studying how the Los Angeles police department patrols gangland neighborhoods. They plan to be less intrusive, eschewing tank raids in favor of foot patrols, cultivating goodwill rather than taking the fight to the enemy. "There is a time for the iron fist and a time for the velvet glove," says Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, deputy director of U.S. military operations in Iraq...
...disloyal mistress?the incarnation of Lady Macbeth. It may be possible to imagine three cackling witches in India's teeming megalopolis, but Bhardwaj chooses to replace them with a pair of corrupt, soothsaying cops who get their jollies playing all sides in the bloody gangland rivalries...
...left a clear electronic trail. Automatic-toll charges, an ATM record and a gas receipt suggest he drove northeast to the town of Newark, Del., then west and finally north into Lancaster County. The gas receipt also included charges for bottled water and soda, odd purchases during a gangland...
...always lived on the edge of trouble. Westchester, N.Y., district attorney Jeanine Pirro is investigating the 1982 disappearance of his first wife, Kathleen McCormack. He is also a "possible suspect," according to Los Angeles police, in the murder of Susan Berman, an L.A. writer who was executed gangland style on Christmas Eve 2000. Oh--and while he was on the lam, Durst sometimes dressed as a woman...
...says Paul Williams, a reporter with the Sunday World who was Guerin's main rival. "But you can see from the amount of dead bodies around that just isn't true." Those would be the bodies of murder victims caught in Ireland's drug wars. There have been 13 gangland killings so far this year - in a country of just 4 million people - and it's only July. "The young guys who have taken over the drug scene in Ireland are far more ruthless than Gilligan's gang ever was," Williams adds. And he would know. A few years...