Ross Perot and run like a paramilitary organization until he sold EDS to General Motors in 1984.

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Years later, the teenage Joseph Ratzinger enrolled in the Hitler Youth movement, a Nazi paramilitary organization with compulsory membership.

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The Pakistan Rangers, a paramilitary organization, said it arrested Qari Abdul Hayyee, alias Asad Ullah, in a covert operation just north of Karachi's international airport.

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