US indicts weapons dealer, accusing him of supplying Colombian terrorists
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NEW YORK -- A wealthy international arms dealer from Syria who once "considered himself untouchable" sought to supply millions of dollars in weapons to Colombian rebels to attack American forces there, US officials said yesterday.
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Syrian weapons merchant Monzer al-Kassar, who has armed militants from Iraq to Nicaragua, was arrested in Spain and faces extradition to the United States for trying to supply Colombian rebels, U.S. and Spanish authorities said on Friday.
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CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. - The former CEO of the nation's leading supplier of body armor to the US military was indicted yesterday on charges of insider trading, fraud, and tax evasion in a scheme that netted him more than $185 million, prosecutors said.
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Top Marxist rebel Ricardo Palmera was extradited to the United States on Friday, becoming the first leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, to face U.S. drug and terrorism charges, officials said.
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A US court requests the extradition of former Colombian paramilitary boss Carlos Jimenez.
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Colombian prosecutors said on Tuesday they opened a criminal probe of U.S.-based Chiquita Brands International for payments it made to right-wing militias branded as terrorists by Washington.
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Two men were charged Thursday with providing financial support to terrorists and recruiting terror group members, including one person identified by U.S. authorities as alleged "dirty bomber" Jose Padilla.
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Two men were charged in a federal indictment on Thursday with raising money to support terrorists and recruiting would-be terrorists to fight in Afghanistan, Chechnya, Kosovo and Somalia.
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The most powerful drug lord ever  extradited by Colombia appeared chained before a U.S. judge on  Monday, and his lawyer said he would fight U.S. charges he ran  his multibillion-dollar business from a Colombian jail cell.
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The most important rebel commander ever captured by Colombia was sent to the United States on Friday to face cocaine smuggling and kidnapping charges.
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A top Colombian guerrilla leader was convicted on Tuesday in a U.S. court on charges she conspired to import cocaine into the United States to raise cash to buy weapons and ammunition.
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President Hugo Chavez on Friday accused Colombia and the United States of plotting a military "aggression" against Venezuela.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - A commander of Colombia's  largest rebel army was handed over to U.S. authorities at a  Bogota airport for extradition to the United States Friday on  cocaine smuggling and kidnapping charges.
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Argentina's former President Carlos Menem is charged with involvement in illegal arms sales during the 1990s.
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The leader of a Venezuelan heroin  trafficking ring has been extradited to New York on charges his  group brought $70 million worth of drugs into the United  States, federal prosecutors said on Friday.
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A Colombian court approved the extradition to the United States of one of the South American nation's most notorious paramilitary leaders on drug smuggling charges.
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The most powerful drug lord ever extradited by Colombia appeared before a US judge on Monday, and his lawyer said he would fight US charges that he ran his multibillion-dollar business from a Colombian jail cell.