Other reports have emerged this year of tensions between Sunni fighters and the Sunni-dominated al Qaeda in Iraq, particularly from Anbar province, long a favored turf for indigenous Sunni insurgents and foreign fighters infiltrating Iraq from Syria.

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Most recently in the Peruvian Amazonas area of Bagua, a group of local indigenous residents rebelled against the presence of foreign companies in the area, despite the fact that President Alan Garcia tried to be sensitive to their needs.

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It's also striking how much more valuable foreign-owned businesses are to Scotland than indigenous ones.

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This speaks to the most basic argument against foreign aid - that it undermines local, indigenous organisations and governments.

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Even the relatively tangible repercussions -- such as the loss of indigenous industrial capability and the attendant, increased reliance on foreign suppliers for components of key weapon systems -- are typically dismissed, or at least subordinated to the perceived greater good of developing globalized relationships with trading partners.

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Overwhelming evidence substantiates the position that the Soviet Union does not now possess an indigenous capability to produce wire bonders or to obtain them from foreign sources in sufficient quantity or quality to render U.S. export controls irrelevant.

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