Why not send the military ashore to rout the pirates and the Somali warlords who finance them and take a 30% cut of the ransoms?
Now a gentrified warlord was financing the renovations.
Weak governments, in turn, are less able to stop corruption and the production and smuggling of arms and drugs, which may in turn help finance warlords, insurgents and terrorists.Instability breeds instability.
Mr. Stepanenko, in more relaxed moments, confides suspicions that Russia's human rights movement has been financing warlords in Chechnya.
American and Afghan officials say opium is financing warlords like Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, local militias, the Taliban and possibly Al Qaeda.
After a failed C.I.A. effort to arm and finance Somali warlords, the Bush administration decided on a policy to bolster Somalia's weak transitional government.
After a failed CIA effort to arm and finance Somali warlords, the Bush administration decided on a policy to bolster Somalia's weak transitional government.
Indeed, some of the experts point to the American effort to finance the warlords as one of the factors that led to the resurgence of Islamic militias in the country.
This year, the C.I.A. began a covert operation to arm and finance the warlords, who had united under the banner of the Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counterterrorism.
