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The article deals with military-style assaults on residences as an important and distinctly identifiable trend in criminal activity in North America. The robberies are well-coordinated operations with each member of the "team" assigned a preordained role. This story focuses on an extraordinary string of 14 unsolved home invasion robberies -- committed by the same band of professional bandits -- in the wealthy suburbs surrounding Phoenix, Az. The robbers appear to be plugged into a larger criminal syndicate of international reach, for some of the gemstones they take are too rare to be fenced in the U.S.