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Politics
Debbie Cenziper

The global threat of rogue diplomacy

Man waits for flight at airport. (guvendemir/Getty Images)

After jetting into the capital of Ghana, the international arms broker who called himself "Excellence" greeted his buyers at the Golden Tulip hotel and proposed a secret sale: millions of dollars in missiles and grenades for use against American forces.

"Who else knows I'm with Hezbollah?" Faouzi Jaber asked as night fell on the four-star hotel with a life-sized sculpture of a giraffe in the lobby.

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