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The CCTV footage of two Italian assassins that missed their marks from nearly point-blank range in March 2012 has been released after a lengthy investigation. Around 9:30 p.m. in Reggio Calabria, 40-year-old Antonino Pricoco and 29-year-old Giole Mangiola, opened fire on their intended victims, Filippo Nocera and Francesco Barreca. Though they were only feet away, […]

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In a scene that could have been “ripped from the pages of a Tom Clancy novel,” a former Army sergeant and sniper instructor, nicknamed Rambo, has been charged with recruiting ex-soldiers as globe-trotting assassins to do the evil bidding of well-to-do drug traffickers. Three members of 48-year-old Joseph “Rambo” Hunter’s gang were prepared to murder […]

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“There has been a persistent gang problem in the military for the past six to eight years,” vice president for STRATFOR Global Intelligence Fred Burton said. The FBI National Gang Intelligence Center reported that as of April 2011they had identified at least 53 gang members who have either served in or are some other way affiliated with the U.S. military.

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