Detectives were so sure that the perpetrators of the "Doner murders" were foreign gangsters, probably from Turkey, that they codenamed the investigation Operation Bosphorus.
Reflecting this mood, recent newspaper headlines include "Keep Japan Safe From Illegals" and "Crimes by Foreign Gangsters Spreading to Local Areas".
Two successful crime writers will also explore unwelcome visitors to London: John Harvey's Good Bait turns on foreign gangsters in the capital, while Simon Kernick's Siege features terrorists storming a Park Lane hotel.
London can continue to flourish as a world class destination for global tourism, centre of banking excellence, playground for foreign gangsters, setting for the BBC's popular Sherlock, etc.
The Castristas were in fact a group of people – most of them ignorant of the mysteries of "scientific socialism" – who did not want any longer to see richer Cubans and foreign gangsters being singled out for commendation in a country were the poor were pushed to the side.
FOLLOWING in the footsteps of foreign missionaries, Chinese gangsters and Chiang Kai-shek, I traveled to the mountain outpost of Moganshan looking for a breather from full-throttle Shanghai.
Who gives Snowden and his media allies the right to decide which secrets to leak, which careers to end, which costly intelligence programmes to ruin, and which clues to give to terrorists, gangsters and foreign spies about the way governments try to monitor them?
The system will inevitably be penetrated by gangsters and foreign governments where the latter are not officially supplied with information.
His foreign-policy rhetoric Putin is a "gangster," Kim Jong-un a "lunatic"—can sound blurty and shrill.
And in a way, those cheerleaders are as foreign to me as the gangsters, so it still feels like I'm investigating the "other".
