Word: paraguay
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...part of the world that has received relatively scant attention is South America. But U.S. intelligence agencies are becoming increasingly worried about a nest of terrorists, drug traffickers and organized-crime figures who have taken up residence in South America's tri-border area, where Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay meet. "It's like the Wild West there," says a Pentagon official. "Crime, religious extremism and politics are all linked under the table." For several years the CIA has had a team of agents monitoring terrorists from Hizballah, Hamas and, more recently, Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization, who have...
...worst crime in American history, and it has triggered the greatest dragnet ever known. The investigation into the atrocities of Sept. 11 has involved police forces across the U.S. and around the world. From Michigan to Malaysia, from San Diego to Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, law-enforcement agencies have been trying to figure out how the terrorists carried out their attacks, who helped them--and what they might do next. Along the way, the American public has been introduced to a confusing mass of names and faces and has learned of more links between them than any but the most...
ARGENTINA, BRAZIL, PARAGUAY...
...ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] Nineteen people in this "contraband capital" have been arrested, mostly on false-documentation charges, and Paraguay has charged officials in 11 of its consulates with selling illegal passports and documents...
...FOILED TERRORIST ATTACK] Last April, U.S. embassies in Uruguay, Paraguay and Ecuador shut down for three days after receiving "credible threats" of attacks...