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...Iraq to Colombia to Nigeria. Operating in countries where American intelligence was often weak, Elder had to rely on his own contacts. In the mid-1990s, while overseeing construction of an oil pipeline in northern Algeria, Elder learned from local sources of a series of killings committed by the rebel Groupe Islamique Armee. This intelligence scoop--the government didn't announce the killings for several days--allowed Elder to steer employees safely away from the danger zones and keep the project on schedule. Indeed, throughout his years as a corporate security manager for BECHTEL and as a consultant to other...
Businesses working in troubled regions often develop relationships with more elements of a country's society, including those that may be hostile to the government, than does the CIA. To stay neutral in a conflict, some businesses even risk irritating their host governments by hiring members of rebel groups. The CIA, as Badolato puts it, "doesn't stay in with the outs." A formal agreement between the U.S. and Britain prevents the two from spying in each other's country, Baer says. That means the U.S. could not have useful operatives in London mosques, and the British just...
PERU Shining Path Redux Just three days before President George W. Bush was due to visit Lima, a car bomb packed with up to 60 kg of dynamite exploded outside the U.S. embassy, killing nine people and injuring 30. Immediate suspicions of responsibility concentrated on the Maoist rebel group Shining Path, which had been quiet for nearly a decade. Bush declared that "no two-bit terrorists" were going to make him put off his trip...
...fake id club. That was a product of its management acting on the YM blurbs, TRL enthusiasm. The band knew they are being manipulated, but also knew these were the small battles they had to lose in order to accomplish their much larger focus. “To rebel against the game you have to play it, to get some status,” co-songwriter and guitarist Aaron Kamin explained. “You have to pick and choose your battles. Hopefully we can have success and that many more kids get the record and hear the greater good...
...fake id club. That was a product of its management acting on the YM blurbs, TRL enthusiasm. The band knew they are being manipulated, but also knew these were the small battles they had to lose in order to accomplish their much larger focus. “To rebel against the game you have to play it, to get some status,” co-songwriter and guitarist Aaron Kamin explained. “You have to pick and choose your battles. Hopefully we can have success and that many more kids get the record and hear the greater good...