Revisionism is already kicking in on the events of the past year...
There is much debate about whether war against Iraq is necessary. What is missing is a debate about whether the war against Al Qaeda had to be a war against the Taliban, fought on Afghanistan's already bloody soil.
Just as United Nations disarmament experts, with a decade or more of expertise and unrivaled archives, are regularly belittled by Washington, those who knew Afghanistan best under the Taliban were not heard. Does the United States disregard UN expertise at great unnecessary cost?...
The writer, UN bureau chief for The New York Times from 1994 to 2001, contributed this comment to the International Herald Tribune.
Read the entire article to discover how stoopid and ineffectual we are. If we'd just left things in the hands of the UN everything would have been all better. Where do they get these people?
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The writer points out that the Taliban were difficult to deal with:
Erick de Mul, a UN coordinator for humanitarian affairs during that period, spoke often of the need to negotiate painstakingly for something as simple as opening an office or the introduction of a badly needed health training program.
She neglects mentioning that President Bush gave the Taliban a chance when he said that all they had to do was to hand over Binny and his boyz; the Taliban would not and did not. Heck, he gave them a chance, then he followed through.
Kinda negate her whole point, no?
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Someone please send that stupid bitch a videotape of the Taliban executing burqa-clad women in the soccer stadium, shooting them in the back of the head for the "crime" of adultery.
This sure has been a time of great clarification. Never before has it been so obvious who is stupid and who has a clue.
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It's hard to conceive that a woman could write anything in defense of the Taliban, the most psychosexually sick regime of modern times. Islam itself is a horrifying form of mass institutionalized misogyny and on that grounds alone most be destroyed. Judaism and Christianity are pretty bad in their treatment of women, but Islam is beyond disgusting.
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Sit down Fred:
The Canadian government resisted calls to close federal charities - Benevolence International, Human Concerns International - even after they were given substantive proof that they were terror fronts. HCI openly sold videos that promoted "martyrdom" massacres, at its outlets in Pakistan. The Canadian government refuses to list Hizbollah as a terrorist organization, even though, until 911, it had killed more Americans than any other terrorist organization.
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In Kabul, unknown assailants tried blowing up three bridges with time bombs however the bombs were discovered before they were detonated. The first bomb was installed under Bagh Amoomi Bridge, the second one under a bridge in Pashing and the third one under a bridge over Kabul River. The first two were disabled in a timely action by Afghan Police while the third one was taken care of by Coalition troops. The Secret Army of Doom flubs another one. Eventually they'll succeed at something...
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The time bombs were a good concept, but using an hourglass led to the poor execution.
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I TOLD those sons of goats that a sundial wouldn't work under a bridge! Dammit!
In Khost, things are getting back to normal as well as business. Coalition troops have taken positions at check posts. A convoy of 40 vehicles has reached Khost from Kabul and a strong radar system at the Khost Airport has been installed. There are no reports of the rebel commander Badsha Khan however several of his men have been arrested. Moreover, Coalition troops have started building an underground bunker at the Argon Aswali airport in Paktia province as the result of Taliban and Al-Qaida attacks. Coalition troops have brought in several bulldozers and tractors for the construction of the underground compound. Zadran's licking his wounds, back in his hometown. At the moment he and the Secret Army of Doom are Afghanland's two pimples. Badsha Khan's probably the easier of the two to pop...
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Is he having a hard time making up his mind?
Former Afghan Prime Minsiter Gulbuddin Hekmatyar denied reports that he âcalled for Jihad (holy struggle) against the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzaiâ, stressing that he only declared that the Islamic resistance supported the Afghan people in their struggle against any foreign presence. Seems like Karzai and "foreign presence" have gone together like ham and eggs since last November...
This comes in the wake of a blast Thursday, September 5, in the Afghan capital, Kabul, and Karzaiâs statements in which he referred to Hekmatyarâs earlier tape recorded call for Jihad against U.S. presence in Afghanistan. Hamid noticed, did he?
In his latest tape recorded speech made available to IslamOnline Sunday, September 8, Hekmatyar said, âI donât know what Karzai aims to do by inviting me to Kabul or by declaring Jihad against the [anti-Karzai] forces that destroyed Afghanistan. Kabul has been destroyed by forces possessing Russian air-craft - the same forces that supported the U.S. forces in their military offensives against the Afghan people.â It was only the ones wearing turbans who were targeted...
Hekmatyar strongly denied reports he had anything to do with the Kabul blast, saying, âthe blast which killed 30 innocent civilians runs counter to all religious and human standards. In light of our Islamic faith, we condemn all acts of terror.â Whereas it is permissible to rocket Kabul and kill 30,000. The Secret Army of Doom flubbed knocking off Karzai and now Hek's stuck with a random atrocity that he's trying to back away from...
âBut we also condemn the terrorism of those who kill innocent people in the light of day, and destroy their houses and mosques,â he added. âWe are saddened by the death of Afghans in this savage way.â He's saddened because he's not in charge...
âThe United States is the biggest terror state in the whole world,â said Hekmatyar who dubbed America âThe Mother of World Terrorâ. He added that in the case of an American invasion of Afghanistan, the current interim government would lose all legitimacy; hence, âit is a waste of time and effort to carry out any action against such government.â Beneath your notice, is it?
âThe International Security Assistance Force, ISAF, cannot provide security for themselves; how can they provide it for the Afghan people?â asked Hekmatyar. By shooting the guys with turbans and automatic weapons, I'd say...
The former prime minister and Hizb-I-Islami leader concluded by saying, âI call on all Afghan parties and organizations to forget their differences and unite for the sake of putting an end to Afghan problems and ousting all foreign troops from our land.â Put an end to all the Afghan problems and the foreign troops will leave to avoid the boredom.
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Hek also used to personally throw acid on the faces of women who were caught without a burkha.Nice fellow.
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If one can discount Hek's holy rolling as bona fide employment, it could be said that that parasite has never worked a day in his wretched life.
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Kuwaiti authorities have arrested 21 Iranians and Afghans who entered the emirate illegally by sea and are still searching for a boat-load of more "infiltrators", a newspaper reported Saturday. "Kuwaiti beaches were exposed to an invasion of Iranian and Afghan infiltrators at dawn Friday," Al-Watan said. The coastguard detected several "targets" in the early hours and on approaching them, arrested 21 Iranians and Afghans on three separate boats all heading for different beaches south of Kuwait City. Security authorities were on the look out for a fourth boat suspected of carrying more men, the daily said. Illegals looking for jobs? Or did they have something else in mind?
Some 66,000 expatriates work legally in Kuwait, mainly in manual and low-paid jobs. Kuwait's 290-kilometre (180-mile) Gulf coastline faces Iran, a key transit point for the westward movement of both illegal workers and drugs. And Bad Guys. Let's not forget the Bad Guys...
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Iraq's UN ambassador Dr. Muhammed ad-Douri criticised Bush's speech to the General Assembly, saying it lacked credibility and was motivated by revenge and political ambition. "He chooses to deceive the world and his own people by the longest series of fabrications that have ever been told by a leader of a nation," Ambassador Mohamed al-Douri said. It hasn't been eleven years?
The Iraqi representative responded on Bush's speech by saying: "If they are threatening, if they would attack, certainly we will be there to defend ourselves." With a 7 million-man army, no less...
Meanwhile, Iraqi satellite television warned Bush of risks setting the region on fire if he attacks Iraq.âAn aggression against Iraq would start an uncontrollable fire, and the United States will pay a heavy price because Iraq is no easy prey as the American adventurers imagine,â it said in a commentary on Bushâs address to the UN General Assembly earlier Thursday. Wonder if they're referring to setting fire to their own oil wells this time, instead of Kuwait's?
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You can bet that when the s**t hits the fan, Mr. Iraqi U.. Ambassador won't be anywhere near the
fightin' "to defend ourselves" - he'll be safely in New York denouncing American aggression against bombing of Baby Milk Factoriesâ¢
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Iraq warned the United States it was ready to repel any aggression with every weapon at its disposal, even kitchen knives, sticks and stones. Foreign Minister Naji Sabri said in interview with Reuters that Iraq still hoped to avoid any attack. âWe shall never let those Zionists invade our country,â he added. E-e-e-e-w! Zoinists! Ucky!
Replying to UN resolutions on Iraq following the 1991 Gulf War calling for Baghdad to get rid of weapons, Iraq demands the UN lift the 12-year-old sanctions imposed on Iraq since 1990. Saying, âFor our part, we ask the United Nations to implement all its resolutions not only those concerned with weapons of mass destructionâ. That's the counterattack to the Bush speech: there was an Arab talking head on FoxNews a little while ago who was demanding the Israel comply with all UN resolutions. And besides, you can't do anything about Iraq while the Paleostinians "are bleeding every day."
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While the Palestinians aren't in compliance with so many more? Nice double standard, again.
OK, lame rhyme here, but they keep talkin' smack: "even kitchen knives, sticks and stones."
Sticks & stones may break my bones, but Daisycutters bend you over.
What are you hittin' us with, those MIG-23's still in Iran? Did you manage to maintain them in the interm?
The already tense relations between Russia and Georgia reached an unprecedented level of distrust and confrontation in recent days with a new Russian threat to launch unilateral, preemptive strikes against Chechen militants in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge. I wonder if this is Bush's tradeoff for Russian support against Iraq? If so, it's a good deal, because it'll benefit us as much as it will them, if only for the dent it will put in the international terror machine. The more points where the Bad Guys have to defend themselves simultaneously, the more likely that one of those points is going to cave...
Generally validating Russian complaints over Georgia's inability to secure the area, observers have noted the overall ineffectiveness of the operation, citing in particular the focus on arresting criminal, rather than terrorist, groups. Additional criticism of the operation centers on the Georgian reluctance to deploy into the mountainous areas beyond the gorge's main roads and central villages and on the advance warning of the operation issued by the government, thereby eliminating any element of surprise. Despite the well-known presence of notorious criminal groups, kidnappers, and narcotics traffickers, Georgian security forces have arrested a mere 10 criminal suspects and one ethnic Arab French citizen initially suspected of links to terrorist organizations, but who subsequently proved to be an employee of a humanitarian agency. This sort of stuff has probably convinced the Bush team that the Georgians are unable or unwilling to actually do the tough stuff, despite our investment in training. The Russers acquiesced in the training too quickly â so there was probably an understanding that if the Georgians didn't produce, we weren't going to holler if the Russians had to do it themselves.
FOLLOWUP: Bush is on FoxNews now, with Berlusconi. The first press question concerned Georgia. He said, not very convincingly, that the Russers should allow the Georgians a little more time. Next question he reiterated that Sammy's been giving the UN the back of his hand for eleven years and we can't wait any longer. The UN can be a peacekeeping body, or it can be irrelevant. I think that fix is in and the Russers can roll up Pankisi anytime â and Georgia if they want it.
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Shevranadze's best shot is to skdaddle up to the Kremlin to try to make some sort of "alliance" with Moscow on this situation. I'm not sure if Putin will keep him cooling his heels or if he'll offer military "aid" of a type that makes Georgia a Russian protectorate. But if the Georgian army isn't up to getting off the main roads and controlling the countryside, I'm not sure what is there to stop Moscow from making offers that Tblisi cannot reject.
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As you sow, so shall ye reap.
As you harbor, so shall ye be invaded.
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Miller, at i330, comments on the down-to-earth wisdom of a midwesterner...
Grand Forks Herald readers respond to an editorial urging anger in response to the terrorist attacks of a year ago.
No, anger and rage are the wrong response, they reply. We have to understand.
Anger is a natural response to an act of terror. It is an emotion that must be acknowledged and dealt with. But it is the manner suggested by the editorial that is most troubling. Are we to understand that the only way to deal with anger is through rage and retaliation?
Well, there is passive acceptance. Or narcissistic reflection. Or stupidity.
None of which does much to prevent terrorists from acting anew, taking the lives of another 3,000 innocent people.
AFTERTHOUGHT: You know that claim that Americans in the Heartland have particular wisdom, insight and appreciation for our nation's ideals? It's mostly crap. There are lots of Reverand Grafs in the world, including North Dakota.
On the mark, but probably pointless. They don't feel stupidity like we do...
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Err, dunno if I've read it right, but isn't it normally the other way around? Paper publishes a "can't we all get along?" editorial, angry reader indulges in a civil, well-reasoned discourse (aka a rant) and paper then points to said reader as being symptomatic of the deeper problem.
But this time it's the paper that's stirring it up.
Seems totally ok with me...
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The Feds are on the teevee right now. They said the tipoff on the Buffalo Bunch came from the local Muslim community, whom they thanked effusively. If true, that's a first. They also said they guys trained in the same camp as Johhny Jihad. I wonder if he's the member of the Muslim community who turned them in?
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regardless of whether the locals turned them in or not, it's a worthwhile project to say that every time they nab some bad guys...puts suspicion in the minds of the others ("who turned them in? Where's Mahmoud? How can he afford a new car? hmmm?") Nothing better than sowing doubts and have them turn on each other
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Reminds me of the myth of Cadmus sowing the teeth of the dragon he killed. Maybe we can live with the survivors of the fratricides to come.
Yemeni national Ramzi Binalshibh is now reported to be undergoing interrogation by the Pakistani police. "It's a very sensitive issue," said one US official, quoted by Reuters news agency. Mr Binalshibh, 30, was detained on Wednesday - the first anniversary of the 11 September attacks - when the flat where he was staying was raided by Pakistani police commandos, supported by US intelligence officers. An anniversary present? For us? Oh, thank you! You shouldn't have... Well, maybe you should have, but we appreciate it anyway.
The operation was planned after a satellite phone call from the flat was intercepted, Pakistani security sources said. Blabbermouths...
Police surrounded the building, which housed a number of suspected al-Qaeda militants. When the police stormed the flat, a gunfight broke out, which spilled out on to nearby rooftops. Two suspects were killed, and the remaining five surrendered, including Mr Binalshibh. Six police officers were injured, two of them critically. US officials said that no Americans were wounded during the operation, which led to the recovery of heavy weapons and various items of communications equipment from the building. So our guys were on site...
The BBC correspondent in Islamabad, Susannah Price, said the arrests are a major coup, both for the Pakistani authorities and the American investigators. At the same time, they demonstrate that members of al-Qaeda are present, not just in remote areas on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, but in Karachi - Pakistan's largest city. It's my contention that Karachi's the GHQ of one of the successor organizations of al-Qaeda. Ramzi and Khalid Sheikh Mohammad were two of the leaders of same. It's probably the coordinating center for Harkatul Mujaheddin al-Alaami, the Lashkar e-Jhangvi, and other allied thugs bunches like Jaish e-Mohammad...
Mr Binalshibh challenged the US authorities to find him in a pre-recorded interview broadcast by the Arab TV network al-Jazeera on Thursday. I love it when they thumb their noses one week and the next week they're in the calaboose... And a week later they're singing.
Together with another al-Qaeda suspect, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, he explained how the group operated and how the 11 September attacks were planned. They said in the interview that Osama Bin Laden had been involved in planning the attacks, and that Mr Binashibh had been the co-ordinator of what was referred to as "Holy Tuesday". Go ahead. Talk your way out of that...
"No, no! You misunderstood me! I didn't say it was me that wanted to drive the plane into the buildings! You took my statements out of context! I was talking about... ummm... something else."
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Police in Lahore registered on Friday a case against an Islamic cleric on charges of sodomizing a 15-year-old madrassa student in the Factory Area. According to the FIR, Zeeshan was a student at the Gulzar-e-Madina in Bank Stop, where Qari Rafique Hanif tutored him in Islam. Police raided the madrasa but found no sign of Hanif. He is believed to have gone into hiding. He's probably off looking for the kid's sister so he can have her raped...
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"..charges of sodomizing a 15-year-old madrassa student in the Factory Area"
first time I've heard that phrase used - is that a Pakland pedophile colloquialism for the rear echelon?
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Police suspect one of the two men killed in a shootout in the Defence area Wednesday was involved in the kidnap and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Informed sources told the Daily Times Friday that both men died in the encounter with the police and the intelligence agencies personnel were of Arab origin. A senior police official requesting anonymity said they were Yemenis. So's al-Shibh. The Yemenis seem to hang together...
The bodies of the two men have been kept at a secluded and well-protected corner of the Edhi mortuary. The sources said an "informer" had told police investigators that one of the dead men was possibly involved in the Daniel Pearl case. Small world, isn't it?
The two bodies will be shown to a man who guided the police to a shallow grave on May 17 in the Gadap area to exhume Pearlâs remains, the sources said. None of the officials in the police and other law-enforcement agencies disclosed the names of the dead suspects. Nor did they confirm reports published in some local evening newspapers that the names are Mohammad Khalid and Saleh Ibrahim. Would that maybe be Khalid Sheikh Mohammad? Still too early to ululate; it's a pretty common name combination. But he and al-Shibh were last seen at the same place...
Followup:
FoxNews has mentioned a rumor than Khalid was taken at the same time...
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The Sindh DIG (Operations) has served show-cause notices to the Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) of Civil Lines and his six subordinates, asking why they transgressed their limits and initiated an encounter against the alleged Al-Qaeda members without informing their superiors. The ASP led a team to Defence area on the instructions of officials of an intelligence agency without prior permission from their superiors, the sources said. When the encounter ended, the senior officials learnt that the suspects had fired only 10 bullets while the police spent 5,000 rounds. The notice also demands to know who ordered the firing. Sounds like Mahmoud the Weasel's cheesed that he didn't get a chance to tip the Bad Guys beforehand...
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Wait a sec! 7 police firing 5000 rounds in an "encounter"? That's over 700 rounds apiece, or a couple of boxes of LMG or rifle ammo in all. You sure they didn't just sell it last week on the Black Market and have to come up with some excuse why it was missing?
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Didja see the video of the apartment building? Looked like a Swiss cheese, with the number of holes increasing the closer you got to the windows. And keep in mind that the 5000 round figure probably also includes all the AK mags that were fired off in victory celebration by the coppers. Fox had video of that, too...
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There was 7 originally, but then they called in the local Keystone Kops and dozens showed up, after capturing the Jihadis, some of the Kops punched, kicked and pulled guns on each other over which department got to keep them.
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After reading Pauls' comment, I'm sitting here in stitches! I've not seen the video, but it sounds hilarious!.
What is it that's causing the Pakistanis to be so obliging? Whatever it is, more please!
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Pakistanâs Foreign Minister Abdul Sattar said no Al-qaeda link was found in any terrorist act in Pakistan. That statement means we can discount anything else he says...
186,000 weapons were confiscated during last 14 months. The Minister said that there are 20 F.B.I officials currently in Pakistan. Okay. If you say so... 186,000 weapons is a fairly staggering number...
While answering questions on a local radio talk show, the Minister said that Pakistan started its war against terrorism even before year 2000 and continued to escalate it after 911. Sure. We all saw that. For instance, there was... ummm...
He said that during the current war on "terrorism" for Americaâs and Pakistanâs own interests we have not let anyone use our soil. Any F.B.I agent is not given a free hand to carry out his own operations. While answering a question he said that the government will take strict action against those who are using police to arrest their enemies in the name of Taliban. "I mean, just because there's a shootout, that doesn't mean they're Bad Guys. And there's other reasons besides terrorism for cutting people's heads off..."
Al-Qaida is not involved in any kind of terrorism in Pakistan and that we have arrested those involved in larger terrorist acts. He also said that the tribesmen are our brothers and it was only after their consent that operations were carried out in their areas. That's probably the driver in this series of silly statements here. The tribesmen presume to meet the government on equal terms — the government's literally afraid of them. The fundos keep trying to drive their wedges in there, to widen the gap.
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"Al-Qaida is not involved in any kind of terrorism in Pakistan" - my sides hurt from all that laughter.
And I thought Aziz was the biggest BS artiste out there. At least Tariq's speeches have more entertainment value.
Pakland is to psychofundos as Lancaster, PA is to Amish.
Pakistanâs self-appointed President General Pervez Musharrafâs lust for power was evident conspicuously when he spoke about âseven more yearsâ to fix the problems of Pakistan. However, his opponents say that when a person canât do any good thing in three years, what to expect from him in the next seven years or so. He's been pretty busy for three years. I'd call the task hopeless, myself, but he's usually been trying...
Addressing a select group of Pakistanis here who were gathered by the Pakistan Embassy in United States by spending public funds, General Musharraf also made an attempt to appease his hosts in the United States by insisting that Pakistanâs culture and complexion needs massive surgery â in simple words Pakistan needs to be Americanized. Hey, sounds good to me. You don't get much more antithetical than Pak's culture right now...
The rent-a-crowd type gathering, as put by a Pakistani newsman, was almost the same who had heard Ms Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif on their holy sojourns to the Land of Fortunes in yesteryears. They always gave a big hand to Pakistani leaders but to Musharraf, flanked by Abdul Sattar Edhi, they gave a standing ovation. "They like me! They really like me!"
"Give me seven years and I'll change the complexion and culture of politics in Pakistan", he pleaded with a lust of power in his eyes and the willingness to push the US agenda in Pakistan clearly visible in his words and tone. No ruler wants to quit the power but Pakistanâs military rulers are notorious for keeping the power until they are forced to quit with humiliation. So're Pakistan's civilian rulers. And so're its fundo wannabe rulers. A national trait?
"You may be surprised to find a man of uniform talking about politics", he said with an awareness of his own predicament, "but let me tell you, I firmly believe in democracy" â a joke that amused the audience who were heard whispering that what a pity is it that the person who killed the democracy in Pakistan is labeling himself as a democrat. Perv realizes there's a difference between democracy and anarchy — as is demonstrated by the situation in his own country. And I think he realizes that the opposition's no more interested in democracy than they are in making ham sandwiches the national dish.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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