In Juarez, as drug cartels and local gangs battle for control of the drug trade, the police are being targeted by hitsquads.
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As another sign that sending hitsquads to distant lands can go wrong, consider the tale of Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, a Chechen ex-president killed in 2004 by a car-bomb in Qatar.
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But, since then, new evidence has come up about the arming of Inkatha hit-squads by apartheid security forces.