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Others are clear about their preferences, precisely because of what they see is the necessity of continuing America's current policy. Osama Hazim al-Shimari, a Baghdad street merchant, says: "John McCain will be better for Iraq because he's the only one who has a logical view... What do you think will happen to Iraq if America withdraws its forces? I support McCain not because he'll bring good things to Iraq, but at least what he says about withdrawing troops is honest." Kurdish legislator Bukhari Abdallah Khudur is of the same opinion because the Iraqi government...
...best of intentions of a relatively honest government supported by a U.N. peacekeeping force, it's uncertain whether Preval can overcome his country's troubled legacy. And the turmoil in the world economy has diminished his chances of success. "We're back to square one," says a Haitian merchant in Port-au-Prince. So far, the police and peacekeepers have been instructed not to retaliate against the protesters, who in addition to burning buildings have also looted numerous retail stores. Patrick Gardere, whose showroom was ransacked Monday, fears that store owners may then take things into their own hands...
...called the Merchant of Death and Man of War for a reason.' THOMAS PASQUARELLO, regional director of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, on the capture of notorious arms dealer Viktor Bout, who had previously worked with U.S. contractors in Iraq but ran afoul of the law when he allegedly smuggled guns to Colombia's leftist rebels and other outlawed groups...
...called the Merchant of Death and Man of War for a reason...
Amid one of his first big shipments - sending crates of fresh-cut South African gladiolas into the United Arab Emirates - Bout realized it was wasteful flying into Africa with empty planes. According to Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes and the Man Who Makes War Possible, a book on Bout written by Douglas Farah and Stephen Braun last year, Bout began to fill his Africa-bound aircraft with stockpiles of Soviet weapons to sell to some of Africa's most notorious regimes and rebel groups. As his business expanded, Bout found himself selling weapons on both sides of the conflicts...