Crime Money Makes Insurgency Self-Sufficient, U.S. Report Says
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NEW YORK, Nov. 25 -- The Iraq insurgency has become financially self-sustaining, raising tens of millions of dollars a year from oil smuggling, kidnapping, counterfeiting, corrupt charities and other crimes, the New York Times reported in Sunday editions.
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The insurgency is raising tens of millions of dollars a year from oil smuggling, kidnapping, counterfeiting, corrupt charities and other crimes, a classified U.S. report has concluded.
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Violent crime fell last year, with only a slight uptick in murders marring the overall trend of fewer crimes across the country, the FBI said Monday in its annual crime report.
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The number of violent crimes increased by a larger amount than expected last year, extending the first significant rise in murders and robberies in 15 years, according to an FBI report released today.
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MEXICO CITY, Sept. 19 -- Mexican drug cartels now operate in almost every region of the United States and bring in as much as $23 billion a year in revenue, according to a Government Accountability Office report that will be released Thursday.
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A year ago, a truth commission's final report cited widespread abuses by soldiers and police in putting down a 20-year insurgency that left 70,000 people dead.
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MOSCOW Forensic analysis of the remains of 31 militants who seized the public school in Beslan last month has determined that all of them were dependent on drugs, a senior law enforcement official said in a statement reported by Russian news agencies
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Taliban militants and common criminals may have infiltrated an Afghan program that trains thousands of men affiliated with local militias to fight the country's growing insurgency.
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American money has helped maintain security in Iraq, but now budgetary constraints are slowing the flow of cash
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The recapture of Fallujah has not broken the insurgents' will to fight and may not pay the big dividend U.S. planners had hoped &#151; to improve security enough to hold national elections in Sunni Muslim areas of central Iraq, according to U.S. and Iraqi assessments.
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While Northern Ireland seeks to build a better peace for its Protestant and Catholic communities, its paramilitary groups have traded in their full-time sectarian violence for a lucrative life of crime.
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Saddam Hussein made $11 billion in illegal income and eroded the world's toughest economic embargo during his final years as Iraq's leader through shrewd schemes to secretly buy off dozens of countries, top foreign officials and major international figures,  said a new report by the chief U.S. weapons inspector released yesterday.
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Iraqi insurgents have reduced the level  of violence in recent days, but may be planning a "more  spectacular" attack just before or during Sunday's elections, a  U.S. general said on Monday.
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Leaders and supporters of the anti-US insurgency say their attacks in recent weeks have a clear objective: The greater the violence, the greater the chances that President Bush
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The nation's defense relies on a small group that operates on a tiny budget and with little clout, experts say.
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BOGOTA, Colombia -- An investigation by the Colombian Defense Ministry has found that drug traffickers and rebels from the country's largest guerrilla group infiltrated the U.S.-backed military here, paying high-ranking officers for classified information to help elude capture and continue smuggl...
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Organized crime may have brought in more than $2 trillion in revenue last year, about twice all the military budgets in the world combined, a report issued yesterday said. The "State of the Future" report, published by the Millennium Project of the World Federation of United Nations Associations, said organized crime entities generated income from money laundering, counterfeiting, and piracy, ...