Word: lawlessness
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...returned briefly to Weld 51 last May with Peter, Tom Lawless, and Christine Li, his girlfriend. We went there, as well as the Weld Observatory, to remember where our friendship began. The inhabitants of Weld 51 seemed less fun then we remembered ourselves...
...While he does hold sway over a large mass of the former Taliban command structure, which has largely taken refuge in Pakistan's lawless mountain sanctuaries, the bulk of what is currently known as the Taliban in Afghanistan is made up of disaffected and alienated bands of Pashtun tribesmen who have been leveraged out of their traditional power bases and are disillusioned by the increasingly corrupt and ineffective government in Kabul. The only point that these groups - some of which are made up of opportunistic criminals, narcotics kingpins and smugglers - can agree on is that they are against the Afghan...
Australian Special Forces in Afghanistan have a fearsome reputation for capturing and killing high-value Taliban targets in Oruzgan, a lawless province southwest of Kabul. The aggressive approach of the Special Air Service regiment and Army commandos complements the regular forces' efforts to win hearts and minds by providing security and building roads, bridges and hospitals...
...Somalia Dangerous Plunder Pirates patrolling Somalia's lawless waters hijacked a freighter carrying tanks and high-grade weaponry and demanded $20 million for its return. As U.S. warships surrounded the vessel--the 26th seized off the Somali coast this year--a pirate spokesman vowed the group would withstand the siege...
...can’t allow that danger to go unmitigated for much longer. Plus, you cannot underestimate the folks with whom we’re dealing. They’re totally broke, living and working in the most tumultuous and inhospitable environment imaginable. Their life has been effectively lawless for years. This is a world in which, recently, every day in business may be your last, where mismatched games of chicken are played with major international powers. In these unstable times, better that we avoid a tangle with these nothing-to-lose daredevils and give them what they want?...