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...mob dragged the bodies of two U.S. soldiers through the streets of Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. The soldiers had been killed in an intense street battle that was later immortalized in the book Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden. But soon after the firefight, U.S. troops were withdrawn from Somalia, and other places--Afghanistan, Iraq--became known as locations where young American soldiers risked their lives...
...officer, then his police commissioner and eventually his business partner when the city-hall years came to an end. The two were inseparable for the better part of a decade. Now Kerik, 52, has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly taking bribes from businessmen with possible Mob ties and could face up to 20 years in prison and fines that could top several million dollars. Giuliani faces a different test: Could his reputation as a crime-busting prosecutor and mayor be unraveled by a handpicked police chief facing criminal conspiracy charges? Federal prosecutors unsealed the Kerik indictment...
...savagery,” and “sheer bestial violence.” In a not-so-precise way, the people of Fallujah were implicated; the event was intentionally left inexplicable, attributable only to the excesses of an angry Arab mob...
...through violence." The boss with perhaps the best chance of extending his grip across Sicily - one way or the other - is Matteo Messina Denaro, 45, of the western coastal city of Trapani. Given the historical supremacy of Palermo, that would mark a departure - or simply yet another in the Mob's endless series of creative adaptations...
Coupled with other crime syndicates across Italy's south, including the 'Ndrangheta in Calabria and the Camorra around Naples, the Mob is not just murderous, but also a major drag on Italy's economic development. A recent report by the Confesercenti small-business association estimated that organized crime accounts for 7% of Italy's GDP, a larger share than any corporate behemoth, even the energy giant ENI. The Sicilian Mob is one of Italy's original multinationals, having partnered with its Italo-American cousins and gangsters around the world to traffic drugs and weapons, launder money and promote other illegal...