Kofi Annan, whose assistants this week used the media to try to decapitate the U.N.

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If Mr Bemba were pushed into exile, as seems likely, that would effectively decapitate what little opposition still exists in Congo.

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Jeff has retired in the face of exhaustion, a fear of snitches in the network and rumors that the U.S. government has planted an agent in the system, who over time is rising high enough to decapitate a big smuggling operation.

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