In fact, they were being led into an undercover operation in an attempt to catch a violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).
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By breaking the fragile status quo prevailing since the spring of 2012, it triggered the current French-led military operation in an attempt to avoid a complete collapse in Bamako.
Bill finally got his operation at the fifth attempt - two months after surgery was first scheduled, and nearly six months after cancer was originally diagnosed.
That operation expanded to an Israeli attempt to install a pro-western government that was willing to sign a peace treaty with Israel.
Who now recalls Operation Lucy, the first attempt to investigate black-on-black crime, which was disbanded in 1989 against the advice of many of the detectives who worked on it?
Both Mr Ramirez and Gen Angeles were investigated as part of Operation Clean-up, an attempt by former president Felipe Calderon to eradicate corruption within the Mexican security forces.
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He gave warning to Colombia's president that any attempt to mount a similar operation in Venezuela would lead to war and he ordered his defence minister to send ten battalions, including armoured units, to the border.
Many protesters believe that Erdogan is playing to his base of culturally conservative voters, a strategy in line with his views as a pious Muslim as well as one that protestors see as an attempt to divert attention from the operation in Uludere.
Ultimately, though, an attempt at a direct and informed critique of the operation of the global financial system was frustratingly absent from the Occupy demonstrations.
However warm the words, though, they cannot undo the damage done both by Turkey's refusal to help and what the American government, at least, saw as an attempt to raise the price of Turkish co-operation.
But history shows that minting developed not as a private-sector attempt to minimise the costs of trading, but as a government operation.
Co-operation between the Bolivian and Argentine police is expected to continue, in a broad attempt both to regularise the situation of adult illegal immigrants and to repatriate minors.
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