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Search results for "arms trade" ...
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Gunrunners
This 8-minute radio report was part of year-long investigation into the illegal global small arms trade. The investigation details several illegal arms shipments from organized crime groups in eastern Europe to rebel forces fighting for diamonds in Africa. The report focused on thew supplier-side of the illegal gunrunning to soldiers in Sierra Leona and its neighbors.
Tags: Sierra Leone; gunrunners; illegal trade; Africa; Cold War; UN; ammunition; trafficking; TAPE; RADIO; transcript
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Gunrunners
This Web site was done jointly with a PBS Frontline/Word episode, "Gunrunners," which examined the "secret activities of international gun smugglers and the efforts of United Nations investigators to track and stop this trafficking," according to the contest questionnaire.
Tags: weapons; trade; crime; military intelligence; CIA; U.S. Customs; Department of Defense; arms; Somalia; Interpol; irewar03
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Wall St.'s Soldier of Fortune
This story examines the fall from grace of Wall Street trader Kevin Ingram, who became implicated in a scheme involving allegations of money laundering and international arms dealing. There is concern by the government that some of the arms may have been destined for the Taliban.
Tags: Kevin Ingram; arms trade; weapons; Jon Corzine; Robert Rubin; Mohson; Malik; Taliban; Bin Laden; Deutsche Bank; Randy Glass; Goldman Sachs; TruMarkets; Jesse Jackson
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Plan for Colombia
The Express-News looks at the United States' efforts to eradicate drug trade in Colombia by spending $1.3 billion on army operations aiming to destroy coca fields. The series questions the effectiveness of the plan. Coca farmers account for the majority of the population in Columbia, and the project would be more successful, if they were provided some alternatives. The reporter examines how the drug war combines with the civil war that has been going on for decades, and finds "that it's unlikely that any significant change will come in Colombia's status as a drug exporter until the civil war is ended."
Tags: kidnapping; assassinations; guerrillas; military; Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC); right-wing militia; international politics; foreign affairs; crime; violence; drug trafficking; cocaine; heroin; Latin America; human rights
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Assassinator James Cappau Was Tito's Son
The Vecernji list (Croatia) digs into the assignation of the Croatian mobster and "king of the poker slot machines" Vjeko Slisko, but discovers a lot more about his assassin, James Cappau. Cappau, according to his mother, was the son of Josip Broz Tito, the former Yugoslav president. The investigation uncovered documents linking Cappeau with arms smuggling to ultranationalist groups in France and Chechnya and the sale of a satellite phone for Dzohar Dudaev, the Chechen leader. (A Russian spy satellite intercepted a call from the phone and killed Dudaev.)
Tags: organized crime; arms trade; assassination; Croatia
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Russian Mob Trading Arms for Cocaine with Colombian Rebels
MSNBC.com "was the first to uncover a scandal that would ultimately lead to the ouster of Peru's President Alberto Fujimori." The reporters found that "guns had made their way to a variety of groups in the region, spreading Colombia's war across borders to Ecuador."
Tags: CD; drugs; drug trade; Ecuador; mob; Colombian rebels
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"The Big Sell"
This report features arms manufacturer Lockheed Martin as an example of how the balance of power between buyer and seller has shifted in the international arms trade. A global dropoff in high-tech arms sales has even top-selling Lockheed Martin struggling to stay afloat, offering top-of-the-line equipment at bargain-basement prices to countries like the United Arab Emirates.
Tags: defense contracts; F-16; Gulf War
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Law Enforcement Weapons Sales
CBS News 'ongoing investigation looked at the policies of major police and sheriff's departments across the country when it came to sales or trades of old service weapons. Using the Freedom of Information Act, and various state Public Records Acts, we collected documents and databases from more than thirty major cities and counties in the United States. Our investigation found that some of America's biggest law enforcement agencies are also some of the biggest arms dealers...."
Tags: TAPE TRANSCRIPT CAR hand guns machine guns grenade launchers gun dealers assault rifles Bureau of Alcohol; Tobacco and Firearms ATF budgets destruction
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Showdown at Miramar
The Marines wanted to move to San Diego. Residents were up in arms about the noise that Marine helicopters would cause. One resident - an engineer by trade - sued the Department of the Navy (which oversees the Marines), accusing the military of skewing data used to approve the new base. KNSD-TV investigated those claims.
Tags: TAPE; Federal Clean Air Act; Emissions; Military
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Dialing for Dollars
Reporters learned that charities were contracting out a lot of their fundraising work to professional fundaisers. Indiana Public Radio learned that, in many cases, charities got only 10% (or less) of the money raised, with the rest of the money going to the professional fundraisers. Reporters researched contracts filed between the charities and the professional fundraisers at the Indiana attorney general's office. The story used as sources the attorney general, officials in the fundraising business, law enforcement officials (both those using the professional fundraisers and those cracking down on them), and people abused by fundraisers. Reporters learned that the Federal Trade Commission cracked down on a few Ft. Wayne businesses that were using strong-arm tactics on small businesses throughout the country. We also learned that some of the charities were not using the money for what they claimed.
Tags: Audio Tape; telemarketing