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Open ambition is a dangerous thing for a mafioso. For years, Salvatore Lo Piccolo managed to mask his highest aspirations as he rose from loyal foot soldier to the upper reaches of the Mafia hierarchy. The 65-year-old Palermo native always seemed to know how to wind up on the winning side of internal feuds, a gift that eventually made him supreme boss in the Sicilian capital. But Lo Piccolo wanted more: control over the entire island of Sicily, expanded cooperation with U.S. mobsters, even the title of capo dei capi - the boss of bosses...
...team through emotional highs and lows, and he comes ready to play each time,” Fish says. “The degree of dependability and constancy in his approach gives me, as a coach, emotional peace of mind. Dan is that quiet soldier who is easily overlooked at your own peril...
...Ocampo launched a probe that involved deposing hundreds of witnesses in 17 countries. By the end of 2006, the prosecutor's team produced evidence of Harun's role in planning and executing the killing campaign against Darfur's civilians. In a bracing scene in Darfur Now, a female rebel soldier, whose son was killed by the janjaweed, tells her comrades of "a man named Ocampo" who will deliver punishment to their enemies...
...death of a Polish soldier in the southern city of Diwaniyah Friday was a reminder that militants will still find ways to strike - and that Americans aren't their only targets...
...father of two who was just beginning his third tour with the Polish force in Southern Iraq, was killed by a powerful roadside bomb Friday morning near a joint Iraqi-Polish outpost in this tumultuous city deep in Iraq's Shi'ite heartland. He was the 22nd Polish soldier to die in Iraq since the autumn of 2003, when Poland first sent troops into the country. He was the first Pole killed in action in more than six months and his death comes at a delicate time for a newly elected Polish government, which is under intense domestic pressure...