'Cowboy' aggression works for Blackwater
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For all its high-profile failings and its reputation for "cowboy" aggression, the secretive security company Blackwater USA has never failed at its primary mission in Iraq: Protecting State Department diplomats.
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Though illegal, dog fighting continues to draw crowds hungry for the sight of blood and the gambling thrill. A law enforcement officer takes us inside this underground world.
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By KEN BENNETT  THE Key Ranch drover dipped the new white straw hat in a bucket of water, knocked it into shape and stuck it on my head to dry in the hot Alberta sun.   Now, I felt like a fully-fledged cowboy in this swirl of blue jeans, bucking broncos and bull-roping buckaroos.
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AGADEZ, Niger  - When Mohamed Latey shot dead the  local police lieutenant and stole his truck, he believed he was  fighting for the freedom of his fellow nomads in the Sahara.
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Like two gunfighters heading for a Texas showdown, Dallas will host a cinematic shootout as conservative and liberal films festivals do battle in the city during the weekend.
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BAGHDAD - The Iraqi government remains determined to expel the Blackwater USA security company and is seeking legal ways to overturn a US-imposed decree that exempts all foreign bodyguards from prosecution under local laws, officials said yesterday.
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Blackwaterâs roughneck logo has undergone a publicity-conscious, corporate scrubbing.
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Efforts to protect packs have been so successful, ranchers can shoot 'harassing' wolves again.
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SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan  - At least 700 Taliban fighters have crossed from Pakistan into Afghanistan to reinforce guerrillas attacking a key dam, a major source of electricity and irrigation, a provincial governor said on Monday.
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Employees of Blackwater USA, a private security firm under contract to the State Department, opened fire on the streets of Baghdad twice in two days last week, and one of the incidents provoked a standoff between the security contractors and Iraqi forces, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.
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Once, drug gangs mostly fought each other, now they're joining forces to wage open warfare on the government
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It's not makeup that has Christian Bale looking dirty, wind-chapped and sunburned in "3:10 to Yuma." He spent a month earning every bit of that cowboy grit by riding horses and firing revolvers in the sweltering New Mexico desert.
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A deadly blast in Mexico City raises fears that Mexican drug cartels are adopting the tactics of their Colombian allies
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By Dorsey Griffith, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 22--Everyone knows someone like this: The guy who sits for hours, playing video games, his heart racing as he pummels animated bad guys with controller-driven automatic weapons.
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Frederick Forsyth wrote it up as The Dogs of War, and set it in Equatorial Guinea here: A rag-tag band of mercenaries, recruited by a British elite, tries to seize control of a mineral-rich, African backwater.
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Predators know to hunt the weakest animal in the herd. So do the Iraqi insurgents. It is an essential truth about the Iraq war that&#39;s ingrained in soldiers like Pvt.
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Fighting fires and facing incoming spittle, stabbings and Molotov cocktails: Is it all part of the job?.