Word: tribalized
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...Stolen Away" was a sad and horrifying article that would send shivers down anybody's spine. Kidnapping girls for sex trafficking is a great sin and causes a lot of embarrassment for tribal cultures that value women's sanctity. The failure of Iraqis to report the kidnappings is a sign of the disgrace and shame that they experience when a daughter disappears. Look what Bush and Tony Blair have done to Iraq. Tanvir Vaqar Mirpur Mathelo, Pakistan...
...efforts to woo Iraqi groups were beginning to pay dividends, as the city's tribal and insurgent leaders gave their approval for young Sunnis to join the new police force. Recruitment mostly ran at about 40 a month, though in January, 1,000 showed up to join. But al-Qaeda responded by sending a chest-vest suicide bomber into the queue of applicants, killing about 40 Iraqis, wounding 80, and killing two Americans. When the recruits returned days later, al-Zarqawi followed up with a wave of seven assassinations of tribal sheiks. "That hurt us a lot," says Gronski...
...from Warri by fast speedboat, is hardly thriving. A water tank installed about a decade ago doesn't work, forcing people to scoop their water from a muddy hole. Worst of all, complains Macaulay Elekute, another elder, there are no local jobs. Violence in the Delta is nothing new. Tribal conflict has plagued the region for years. Well-armed and organized gangs have been present almost as long as the oil companies, making tens of millions of dollars in "bunkering" operations in which oil is illegally siphoned off (and causing, oil companies have long maintained, most of the local environmental...
...March 2002, Ney had agreed to insert language in an election bill that was being negotiated that would have lifted a gambling ban on an Indian tribal client, the Tiguas of Texas, according to the Volz plea deal. That effort failed when Sen. Christopher Dodd of Connecticut did not back it in the Senate, leaving Abramoff vulnerable to the Tiguas' wrath. Three days after they returned from the Scottish golfing trip, according to Volz's plea agreement, Volz "told Ney what Abramoff wanted him to say" in a meeting with the Tiguas. The Tiguas' lawyer, Mark Schwartz told the Senate...
...close race for Lieutenant Governor of Georgia, but his involvement with Abramoff has hurt his chances. He alienated his former Christian Coalition allies when it was revealed that in 2001 he had secretly taken gambling money to mobilize Christian activists to help shut down a tribal casino in Texas that competed with one run by Abramoff's Indian clients. The embarrassment only got worse when e-mails showed that the casino Reed secretly helped Abramoff close was run by the Tiguas, whom Abramoff turned around and signed up as clients months later with promises that he could help them reopen...