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...convention's prize pit bull, turncoat Democrat ZELL MILLER, made Dick Cheney seem warm and fuzzy...
...Mafia magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. The property's owner, Nicola La Barbera, and Spera's doctor, Vincenzo Di Noto, were also arrested, and both later served time for Mafia association. But there was no sign of Provenzano. Authorities may never get that close to him again. A turncoat Mob informant later confirmed that Provenzano, who's been on the lam in Sicily for the past four decades, had indeed been in Mezzojuso that morning. But the capo dei capi was some 200 m up the hill in a smaller shack when cops arrived at the main house...
...Sixteen other alleged members were caught in coordinated raids in Italy, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. In Italy, police launched a nationwide "preventive" sweep late Friday, taking 90 mostly Moroccans into custody. And prosecutors talked publicly about a small but significant development in their anti-jihadist efforts: their first turncoat. Riadh Jelassi, 33, was sentenced to jail for 31/2 years, and wrote prosecutors last September saying he would sing to avoid deportation to his native Tunisia. In extensive interrogations, he has described plots to drive suicide truck bombs into...
Many soldiers in the main force of Haitian rebels attempting to overthrow President Jean-Bertrand Aristide are armed with American M-1 and M-14 rifles given to Haiti in the 1980s. The turncoat militia--the Artibonite Resistance Front, formerly known as Aristide's loyal Cannibal Army--is hardly the first foreign military force to get its hands on a stockpile of U.S. weapons. Here are some conflicts of the past few years that the U.S. has unwittingly armed. --By Nadia Mustafa...
Many soldiers in the main force of Haitian rebels seeking to overthrow President Jean-Bertrand Aristide are armed with American M-1 and M-14 rifles given to Haiti in the 1980s. The turncoat militia - the Artibonite Resistance Front, formerly known as Aristide's loyal Cannibal Army - is hardly the first foreign military force to get its hands on a stockpile of U.S. weapons. Here are some conflicts of the past few years that the U.S. has unwittingly armed. Afghanistan In the 1980s anti-Soviet mujahedin got Stinger missiles and Chinese-made AK-47s, later used by the anti...