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	Pablo Escobar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria (January 12, 1949 – December 2, 1993) gained world infamy as a Colombian drug lord who became one of the richest men in the world by smuggling cocaine into the United States and countries around the world.
		Accordingly, how Escobar was killed during the confrontation has been debated, but it is known that he was cornered on the rooftops of Medellín and suffered gunshots to the leg, back, and the fatal one behind his ear.
		The hunt for Escobar was documented in Mark Bowden's book Killing Pablo, and a motion picture based on this book is scheduled for release sometime in 2005 [1].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pablo_Escobar (1173 words)

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		Pablo was born to a middle class family in Medellín, and by the time he reached high school he had begun his transformation into a “thug.” His criminal activity began with boosting cars, evolved into kidnapping for sport, and eventually the drug trafficking that would make him so infamous.
		Pablo was a monster, ruthless to his core—a man who killed thousands according to his plata o plomo (silver or lead, bribes or bullets) strategy.
		Killing Pablo is not simply a sensational read, but it is also an important book in the context of narcotrafficking.
	home.wlu.edu /~norwooda/gs/bookreview.html (1664 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw
		Pablo was their second son, and she had already borne Abel a daughter.
		Pablo became a heavy doper early on and stayed that way throughout his life, sleeping until one or two in the afternoon, lighting up not long after waking up, and staying stoned for the rest of the day and night.
		Pablo would not have been the first street-smart kid to discover that it was easier and more exciting to take money from others than to earn it.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/killingpablo.htm (5838 words)

	CNN.com - Reporter pursues Escobar story in 'Killing Pablo' - May 31, 2001
		Pablo Escobar controlled the Medellin drug cartel and made himself a fearsome power in Colombia.
		Escobar was killed on December 2, 1993, shot on the roof of a hideout in Medellin.
		"I think the effort to kill Pablo was justified, and presented a one-of-a-kind situation, which is in the nature of special op(eration)s," he said.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/SHOWBIZ/books/05/31/killing.pablo (1085 words)

	HRW: Community: Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World'S Greatest Outlaw
		In Killing Pablo, reporter Mark Bowden writes about Escobar and the hunt that led to his death, presenting it as one episode in the continuing soap opera of America's war on drugs.
		Bowden shows that "killing Pablo" has had no lasting effect on the amount of illegal narcotics sold on U.S. streets or the violence that now claims over 3,000 Colombians a year.
		Killing Pablo is a gripping autopsy of failure.
	www.hrw.org /community/bookreviews/bowden.htm (942 words)

	BookPage Nonfiction Review: Killing Pablo
		Pablo Escobar became the godfather of international cocaine trafficking by offering a choice to anybody standing in his way: plata o plomo (silver or lead).
		Adopting his style as their own, they torched Escobar's lavish homes and killed, by their estimate, some 300 people who aided him.
		News junkies might think they already know enough about the life and death of Pablo Escobar, but even they will be awed by the magnitude of the carnage, the intricacy of the manhunt and the legal and political complications that arose when two sovereign nations mixed law enforcement and military missions.
	www.bookpage.com /0106bp/nonfiction/killing_pablo.html (269 words)

	Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw
		Description: Killing Pablo is the story of the fifteen-month manhunt for Colombian cocaine cartel kingpin Pablo Escobar, whose escape from his lavish, mansionlike jail drove a nation to the brink of chaos.
		Killing Pablo also tells the story of Escobar's rise, how he built a criminal organization that would hold an entire nation hostage -- and the stories of the intrepid men who would ultimately bring him down.
		Action-packed and unputdownable, Killing Pablo is a tour de force of narrative journalism and a stark portrayal of rough justice in the real world.
	www.bordersstores.com /search/title_detail.jsp?id=51923825 (442 words)

	Killing Pablo: Mark Bowden -- RUTHLESS REVIEWS: Books
		Pablo’s life was a product of violence and lawlessness that festered in Colombia long before his birth.
		Bowden also takes us into Pablo’s private world of lavish parties, endless supplies of marijuana, throngs of teenage girls, his political and legal battles, and most notably, the cruel and lethal scope of his power.
		Shortly after, in an attempt to kill the presidential successor, Pablo’s men planted a bomb on an Avianca airliner, blowing it out of the sky and killing all 110 passengers, including two Americans.
	ruthlessreviews.com /books/p/pablo.html (671 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		By intercutting Pablo's life story with the big political and cultural picture, Bowden puts into perspective how social and historical upheavals both in Colombia and the United States converged to allow men (and women) to become involved in the illegal drug trade.
		Killing Pablo is also a suspense-filled account of the joint Colombo-American pursuit of "el doctor" in the early 1990s.
		Their biggest incentive, besides the satisfaction of ridding the world of "el doctor" once and for all, was to reduce the level of violence unleashed by Pablo's war against the government in his bid to be left alone and unpunished while he ran his narco-terrorist "enterprises" in his home city of Medellin.
	www.epinions.com /content_173194841732 (1054 words)

	CNN Transcript - CNN Perspectives: Killing Pablo - November 12, 2000
		KILLING PABLO is based on Mark Bowden's multi-part newspaper series that began running today in the "Philadelphia Inquirer." A word of caution, the following video contains graphic material.
		So, once Pablo said, Colonel, if you are listening, I will even do away with your family's third generation, if your grandmother is dead, I will dig her up, kill her and bury her again.
		Pablo Escobar did not fall, did not fall, and while that did not happen, people told us we were Pablo's accomplices, that we had received money from him.
	transcripts.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0011/12/cgs.00.html (6903 words)

	Readuponit: Killing Pablo
		It is a book called Killing Pablo, about how the US government helped track down and kill Pablo Escobar, the most notorius Colombian drug cartel leader of all time.
		The story of Colombia in the early '90s is horrifying--a complete lawlessness, that went as far as assassinating dozens of judges, bombing an airliner with 100 people on board, and killing five or six presidential candidates.
		Pablo comes across as a soft spoken stoner who is elegantly polite, and dreadfully ruthless.
	www.gonomad.com /readuponit/2005/02/killing-pablo.html (263 words)

	ISBN 0142000957, Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw by Mark Bowden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Killing Pablo is as richly textured, engrossing, stunning, and haunting as any reader can reasonably demand.
		Killing Pablo is in a class all by itself.
		Killing Pablo was a fascinating book focusing primarily on the technology and strategies involved in the killing of one of the world's largest and most ruthless drug lords.
	www.findusedbook.com /books-isbn/0142000957 (1152 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the Richest, Most Powerful Criminal in History: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Killing Pablo, Mark Bowden's intoxicating account of the turbulent life of Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar and his inevitable demise, relates in riveting detail the cataclysmic effect one man can have on the world economy.
		Finally tracked down and killed in 1992 after a 15-month intense manhunt that had resulted in hundreds of casualties on both sides, Escobar was, ironically, that archetypal American hero, the outlaw, siding with "ordinary people" against the ruling oligarchy (although at his peak Forbes magazine listed him as the seventh-richest person in the world).
		While he stops short of claiming that the Americans were present or active in the killing, he admits that Delta knew roughly where Escobar was and were dismissive of the electronic wizardry, pointing out that Escobar was eventually spotted by the naked eye.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1903809487 (1324 words)

	Etude \| Summer 2005 \| Q & A - Mark Bowden
		In the case of Killing Pablo, I originally conceived of it as a chase.
		For example, in Killing Pablo, many of the conversations had been recorded or were in the documents that I had or were interviews that he done.
		But in the case of Killing Pablo you were dealing with friends in the government and shady characters.
	etude.uoregon.edu /summer2005/bowden (1644 words)

	Mark Bowden Killing Pablo Reviewed by Rick Kleffel
		As was 'Black Hawk Down', 'Killing Pablo' is a non-fictional look at the US involvement in warlike situation that isn't, strictly speaking, a war.
		Since that description might well apply to our War Against Terrorism, 'Killing Pablo', the story of the US part in the tracking and killing of Colombian drug lord supreme Pablo Escobar, retains its current events-driven appeal.
		The story of Pablo's rise to power is filled with violence and death, most of it orchestrated by Pablo himself.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/bowden-killing_pablo.htm (646 words)

	Salon.com News \| Death of a drug lord (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A 20-year veteran of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Bowden first published much of what became "Killing Pablo" as a series of articles in the Inquirer, and it was also made into a CNN documentary that aired last November.
		The death of Pablo Escobar was the death of the Medellín cartel.
		But killing off the Medellín cartel was a long process, and through that process the Cali cartel grew more and more powerful.
	archive.salon.com /news/feature/2001/05/24/bowden/print.html (3740 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Books: Readings
		Killing Pablo is the perfect showcase for veteran investigative reporter Mark Bowden (Bringing the Heat, Black Hawk Down) to resuscitate a story often dulled-down by the U.S. media to a case of good vs. evil.
		Killing Pablo begins with Escobar's birth, highlighting his middle-class farming family, his first foray into crime as a car thief, his eventual segue into marijuana sales, and his ultimate position as leader of the Colombian drug trade.
		Pablo Escobar was merely a "creature of his time and place." That certainly doesn't excuse his actions, but it adds a new dimension to the tale of a man who wasn't "the first street-smart kid to discover that it was easier and more exciting to take money from others rather than earn it."
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2001-06-22/books_readings.html (507 words)

	ScienceDaily Books : Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		'Pablo fled in his underwear, avoiding the police cordon on foot.' He got away, again, but his days were numbered.
		It is basically an overview of his life as a drug dealer and focuses on his Last Years before being killed and the operations and organizations involved, including American organizations.
		Bowden briefly chronicles Pablo's rise from a street thug to a drug kingpin who lives in luxury (with an odd taste for toilets) and who has his hands in Colombia politics (including a stint in that nation's legislature).
	www.sciencedaily.com /cgi-bin/apf4/amazon_products_feed.cgi?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=0142000957 (2538 words)

	New Statesman - Book Reviews - Lines, damn lines, and statistics. Will Self reads a life of Pablo Escobar, the ...
		Dillinger wasn't the first or the last reggae star to take his moniker from a famous outlaw, but his cheerful little ditty was a curtain-raiser on a quarter-century during which the only criminal act in the global village worth talking about has been the production, export and sale of drugs.
		In the hunt to kill Escobar, the North American narco-warriors suborned still further the civil law and democracy of Colombia, a nation already devastated by years of political violence and extremism.
		Ploughing my way through Killing Pablo, I was reminded of Howard Marks's autobiography, Mr Nice, which, while ostensibly about hashish smuggling, was so freighted with tedious detail about dates, numbers and quantities that it could just as easily have been the life story of an accountant.
	www.newstatesman.com /200106040040 (1587 words)

	AETN International - News
		Escobar¡¦s death was the culmination of the largest manhunt in history, and put an end to the criminal empire that held a nation of thirty million hostage.
		The True Story of Killing Pablo features interviews with some of the key officials of the Colombian and U.S. governments, as well as prominent figures from the police taskforce and vigilante militia that hunted Escobar down.
		The True Story of Killing Pablo explores much of the controversy surrounding the United States¡¦ involvement in the manhunt for Pablo Escobar.
	www.aetninternational.com /news.jsp?id=9992224 (496 words)

	Amazon.com: Killing Pablo (2005) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		I'm surprised that Mark Bowden's "Killing Pablo" hasn't received that same level of acclaim as his master work, "Black Hawk Down." "Pablo" is a superb piece of investigative reporting, more so (in my mind) for its revelations about the extent of overt and covert US involvement in the hunt than for internal Colombian issues.
		I bought "Killing Pablo," the video, to show to my world geography class as we studied South America.
		First, it focused very heavily on how Pablo was actually captured, as opposed to the evils that he committed before his capture.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000058TMK?v=glance (1367 words)

	killing pablo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The mystery surrounding the death of Pablo Escobar is also explored, including the possibility that he was not shot by Colombian police, but was rather executed by a Delta Force sniper.
		The documentary is based upon the book Killing Pablo; The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw by Mark Bowden, the best-selling author of Black Hawk Down.
		In addition, THE TRUE STORY OF KILLING PABLO features interviews with some of the key officials of the Colombian and U.S. governments, as well as prominent figures from the police taskforce and vigilante militia that hunted Escobar down.
	www.historychannel.com /pablo/show.jsp (194 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Killing Pablo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Killing Pablo is a book that should have been made into a movie.
		Pablo Escobar, who was at the time, the single most powerful drug trafficker in the world.
		Full of information about hundreds of people involved with either Pablo's rise or Pablo's fall, Killing Pablo is one of the most informitive books I have read about beginning of the drug wars that have consumed the United States of America for now well over 10 years.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0743517903 (1547 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw - Mark Bowden - Paperback
		Killing Pablo is the inside story of the brutal rise and violent fall of Colombian cocaine cartel kingpin Pablo Escobar, whose criminal empire held a nation of thirty million hostage--a reign of terror that would end only with his death.
		Bowden's book recounts the bloody rise and fall of Pablo Escobar, the godfather of the Medellin cocaine cartel who was assassinated by Colombian police in December 1993.
		A ruthless terrorist who kidnapped, tortured and murdered, this self-styled Pancho Villa was also an adored hero for Colombia's poor—a generous builder of schools and soccer fields, not to mention a concerned family man. For nearly two decades, even while he was confined in prison, Escobar's death squads ensured that nothing interfered with his empire.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=2WRI229NEO&isbn=0142000957&itm=1 (1932 words)

	Washington Monthly: KILLING PABLO: A Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw
		In Killing Pablo, Mark Bowden tells how Delta Force, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the CIA, and an army spy unit known as "Centra Spike" pursued and helped to destroy Colombia's cocaine kingpin.
		Killing Pablo rises to a satisfying climax with the final cat-and-mouse game led by an aging Colombian colonel and his tech-savvy son, who followed Escobar for weeks through Medellin with a makeshift radio-wave tracking device.
		That lapse hardly detracts from Killing Pablo's visceral power; it succeeds as a gripping morality tale in which evil finally gets its comeuppance.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1316/is_6_33/ai_75434989 (1286 words)

	Salon.com Books \| Uncle Sam, manhunter
		Earlier that year, and in secrecy, an Army spy unit called Centra Spike arrived in Bogotá, Colombia, with the mission to offer training and the fruits of its intelligence-gathering technology to the Colombian police in their battle against the Medellín cocaine cartel.
		"Killing Pablo" author Mark Bowden talks about the 16-month game of cat and mouse that finally took down Medellín cartel founder Pablo Escobar.
		For Harris, the Noriega arrest was the result of a peculiar mixture of chance, opportunism, politics and a dash of idealism.
	www.salon.com /books/feature/2001/05/24/pablo (935 words)

	AIH: FEATURE: Mark Bowden: Killing Pablo - CBC Radio
		December 2, 1993, marked the end of one of the longest, bloodiest and most corrupt manhunts in history.
		It was the day Pablo Escobar was gunned down by Colombian police.
		He's a journalist with the Philadelphia Enquirer and the author of Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw.
	www.cbc.ca /aih/international/escobar_010621.html (222 words)

	Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw by Mark Bowden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw by Mark Bowden
		On July 22, 1992, drug lord Pablo Escobar walked out of the luxurious prison he built for himself and disappeared into the Colombian jungle.
		Killing Pablo is the inside story of the brutal rise and violent fall of Colombian cocaine cartel kingpin Pablo Escobar, whose criminal empire held a nation of thirty million hostage—a reign of terror that would end only with his death.
	www.ashbrook.org /books/0871137836.html (586 words)

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