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Beat the Devil
Cockburn, Alexander | May 9, 1994 issue

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This article focuses on the socio-political developments in the world. It's a year since the F.B.I. killed at least seventy-five people, men, women and plenty of children, in the Mount Carmel compound of the Branch Davidians outside Waco. So fifty years after the Nazis' attack on the Warsaw ghetto, the F.B.I. gassed a religious community on national television, with the near total support of the press. It looks as though the brief but still unappetizing cult of Lieut. Gen. Sir Michael Rose, British UNPROFOR commander in Bosnia, may be over. This former death squad commander called for President Bill Clinton to unleash the F-16s.

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WORLD politics; DISASTERS; UNITED States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; INTERNATIONAL relations; DEATH squads; BOSNIA & Hercegovina; UNITED States
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