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...marshals service, investigating money-laundering and other cross-border smuggling crimes, protecting the airspace over Washington, D.C., carrying out marine drug interdictions, and providing security at federal buildings nationwide. At times, the line between ICE's portfolio and the FBI's isn't clear, a made-to-order scenario for turf battles. In fact, it was ICE that nabbed Nuradin Abdi, the Somali who was charged on Monday with conspiring with al-Qaeda to blow up an Ohio shopping mall...
...region, and they fear that the current dynamic could break up Iraq into ethnic enclaves, an outcome that would spark new troubles throughout the region, not least in oil-rich eastern Saudi Arabia where secessionist voices among the Saudis Shiite minority would likely be amplified. Riyadh's best-case scenario had been to maintain a Sunni-dominated polity in post-Saddam Baghdad, but right now that looks unlikely. Iraq's future hangs in the balance between a wide variety of contending forces, and the outcome is impossible to call. If it proves unable to contain the Qaeda insurgency within...
...wealth. But the AUC and the FARC wield power, and firepower, that a druglord like Escobar could only dream of. Should the groups eventually fill the more centralized cartel roles that the Medellín and Cali organizations once played, says one U.S. official, it could create "a catastrophic scenario" for the drug war in Colombia, where the U.S. has already spent some $2.5 billion since 2000. It could also further corrupt Colombia's weak military, which has strong ties to the AUC. The strength of these groups makes peace talks all the more daunting. The FARC...
...can’t see a scenario where there won’t be a great deal of engagement with the community,” he says...
...Typically there are indications that it’s going to be really hostile,” he says of the potential scenario. “Then there have been times when you never know what the reception is going to be like...