Redmond says indigenous people throughout the region are under constant pressure from illegal armed groups, many involved in the drug trade.

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When it hit land, the constant rain caught the region off guard.

ECONOMIST: After Mitch

Mr Bush had to act in part because allowing near-warfare between Israelis and Palestinians was becoming even more damaging to American interests in the region than Mr Clinton's constant meddling.

ECONOMIST: Uncle Sam to the rescue

Despite the fanfare surrounding last week's arrival of 1, 000 American paratroopers at a muddy airstrip 30 miles north of Irbil, and the constant flow of men and materiel to the region, Kurdish officials admit that the northern front will be a considerably downsized affair.

ECONOMIST: Some useful joint house-cleaning against extremists