Important American politicians - 3rd page
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Here are a few pictures of people who played an important role in American politcs. They were all mentioned on the previous page.
The man in the green suit is Manuel Noriega, dictator of Panama. He was notorious for trafficking cocaine to the USA and for cooperating with the CIA (until he started acting difficult about the Panama Canal).
"Say goodbye to the bananas, Manuel !"
Noriega left behind $8.2 million dollars when he fled from the US troops. Don't try this at home, kids !
DEA= Drug Enforcement Admini- stration (American organization)
Noriega is still in jail in Florida ... 
Do we still need to introduce this woman ?!
Monica Lewinsky became political news by doing something highly unpolitical ...
Lt. Col. Oliver North did a lot of dirty work for the Reagan and Bush Sr. administration. In the end the press found out about a lot of illegal arms and drug deals. He's a bit luckier than Manuel Noriega : he has his own radio show now !
Say 'Hi !' to the bad guy ... Saddam Hussein used to be a friend of the USA, especially when he was involved in a bloody war with Iran (NOT one of America's friends at the time). The USA sent him lots of money and weapons. This allowed Saddam to start building super missiles and SUPPOSEDLY nuclear weapons. It took the USA 2 Gulf Wars to lock Saddam behind bars.
Meet Colonel Muamar Ghadafi, autoritarian leader of Libya, one of the so called Rogue States (= the baddies). These are of course propaganda pictures. The girl is Miss Net World. Ghadafi invited her to Libya to tell her just how great his country is and how sad it is that he doesn't get any support from ("other") democratic countries. Libya used to offer refuge to a lot of terrorists and it mostly likely also had boot camps for terrorists. However, about two years ago Ghadafi denounced terrorism and thus befriended both the USA and Europe.
"Welcome to my peaceful world !"
"Come to Ghadafi ..."
Miss Net World cries because she is so impressed.
The rifle which was used to assassinate JFK.
This is the man who shot L. H. Oswald in public.
Lee Harvey Oswald (left), the man who supposedly shot JFK. He too was shot shortly afterwards !
One of the most famous pictures ever !
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