1.   Before he was reincarnated as Mr Virtue, Bennett commanded the drug war in the Bush administration.

2.   The drug war is a skirmish, the leftist gangs an irritant.

3.   The incident has cast light on the creeping privatisation of the drug war.

4.   Under the law, the United States suspends all assistance programs to any country not certified as cooperating in the drug war.

5.   Gmez and Lloreda opposed extradition, favouring dialogue with the drug cartels in the hope of capitalizing on a perceived public weariness with the drug war.

6.   An hour before the market closed, a U.S. official said Clinton would certify Mexico as a country that is helping fight the drug war.

7.   Another terrible cost of the drug war is the incarceration of enormous numbers of people.

8.   At press conferences in Mexico City and at congressional subcommittee hearings in Washington, the focus of the drug war is on the huge Mexican cartels.

9.   At the same time, however, the national attitude toward the drug war has shown signs of changing.

10.   Before he was reincarnated as Mr. Virtue, Bennett commanded the drug war in the Bush administration.