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James Madison, the architect of the constitution, always maintained that America was not a democracy but a republic. A democracy was government by the people (something many of the founders considered akin to mob rule), while a republic, Madison wrote in "Federalist No. 10," is "a government in which the scheme of representation takes place...
...west were sacked. In protest, army commander Reinado deserted, fashioning himself as leader of a rebel corps. The military dispute sparked a factional civilian conflict between the country's Easterners and Westerners - groups that until then had rarely even defined themselves along regional lines. Dozens died in the ensuing mob violence. An estimated 150,000 of the nation's 1 million citizens were forced to flee their homes. Reinado was briefly jailed but escaped from prison and since then he and many of his forces have remained on the run, engaging in occasional firefights with Australian led-peacekeepers, whose East...
...Inzerillo mob family of Palermo has long been referred to by a somewhat wistful moniker: gli Scappati, the Runaways. More than 20 years ago, the surviving Inzerillos had been "allowed" to flee their home island by the then Sicilian boss of bosses Toto Riina. The bloodthirsty capo had killed dozens of their brothers, cousins, uncles and fathers in a mob war in the early 1980s, a conflict that cemented Riina's Corleone clan as the supreme rulers of Sicily's crime syndicate, also known as Cosa Nostra. Mafia experts say Riina was on his way to exterminating the rest...
...Calabria and the Camorra in the Naples area. At the same time, however, the Cosa Nostra was assaulted again and again by major Italian police crackdowns in the 1990s. Police believe that Salvatore Lo Piccolo, Provenzano's successor as Boss of Bosses, was trying to revive the Sicilian mob's fortunes by linking back up with American mobsters through the old Inzerillo connection. Lo Piccolo's arrest in November is believed to have brought more of the "Old Bridge" operation to light...
Still, the breach was a chance to complete all manner of desperate errands. A Gaza waiter named Maher Sheikha carried his 12-year-old son Femeh through the mob, balanced across the destroyed metal fence and then climbed through barbed-wire tangles. Femeh was dying of a blood disease, and the only chance of recovery was rushing him to a Cairo hospital...