Word: lawlessness
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...known facts of the Drummond case as outlined in the complaint are disturbing enough. For months union leaders pleaded with company executives for more security against lawless right-wing paramilitaries operating in the northern Cesar province, where the 25,000-acre mine - from which Drummond exports 25 million tons of coal a year, with an estimated value of $700 million - is located. One key request that was refused was to allow workers to sleep on the premises. Once outside company property, miners were vulnerable to the paramilitaries, who are believed responsible for most of the 900 extra-judicial killings taking...
...closest allies in the war on terrorism, was reportedly in Abu Dhabi in a secret meeting with Benazir Bhutto, a long-time political foe, former Pakistani prime minister and opposition leader now living in exile in London. Musharraf is under pressure not only from Islamic extremists based in the lawless frontier lands along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan - a U.S. report issued two weeks ago warned that al-Qaeda and the Taliban had reconstituted in the area - but also from Pakistan's middle-class moderates, who are angry with the President for what they see as his ham-fisted attempts...
...small victory in a massive environmental war, one that Russia is generally losing. But it offers a bit of hope that as Russia's wealthy elite stabilizes after more than a decade of explosive, often lawless growth, they may come to realize that they don't want to trash their own backyard...
...deaths of dozens of militants and ten soldiers - Pakistan's Islamist extremists have retaliated with a series of attacks that have killed more than 180 people, most of them soldiers and police. A U.S. intelligence report this week concluded that Pakistan's policy of non-engagement in the lawless tribal areas along its border with Afghanistan has been a complete failure and allowed al-Qaeda to regroup. Washington is already ratcheting up the pressure for Pakistan to do more...
Islamic fundamentalists, who want Pakistan ruled by Islamic law, and foreign extremists like al-Qaeda, who are hiding in Pakistan's mountainous and lawless borderlands, hate Musharraf because of his ties to Washington. Moderate Pakistanis dislike him because he seized power by force and seems determined to stay in office even if that means suspending the chief justice, who could be a potential block on Musharraf's bid for another term...