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4 items by Guy Lawson

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  The War Next Door | ARTICLE

  The dead policeman is found propped against a tree off a dirt road on the outskirts of the city. He is dressed like a cartoon version of a Mexican cowboy, wearing a sombrero and wrapped...

  April 18, 2011 9:00 AM ET
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  How the Cartels Work | ARTICLE

  One of the strangest things about the drug war that is tearing Mexico apart is how little of the bloodshed has spilled over the border. On one side of the Rio Grande is Ciudad Juárez,...

  April 18, 2011 9:00 AM ET
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  The Stoner Arms Dealers: How Two American Kids Became Big-Time Weapons Traders | ARTICLE

  The e-mail confirmed it: everything was finally back on schedule after weeks of maddening, inexplicable delay. A 747 cargo plane had just lifted off from an airport in Hungary and was banking over the Black...

  March 16, 2011 9:00 AM ET
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  Osama's Prodigal Son: The Dark, Twisted Journey of Omar bin Laden | ARTICLE

  It is after midnight when Osama bin Laden's fourth-born son, Omar, leads me into a nightclub called Les Caves de Boys in the center of Damascus. Marked only by a small neon sign on a side...

  January 20, 2010 10:40 AM ET