"Gangsters became an American-backed quasi-police force.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long History of American Treachery] Reference

Pursuant to an American-backed Ethiopian invasion of Somalia in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Not Again has Become Not Another One: Genocide in Ethiopia] Reference

Castro overthrew the previously American-backed government in 1959.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 13, 2005] Reference

The officials describe it as a blow to American-backed anticorruption efforts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afghanistan Money Probe Hits Close to the President] Reference

Ameriyah now belongs to militia leader Abu Abed and his American-backed gunmen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sunni Civil War] Reference

In this valley "the American-backed government of Afghanistan no longer exists.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Afghanistan: Stand and Deliver ... or not] Reference

In this valley in Logar province, the American-backed government of Afghanistan no longer exists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anand Gopal: Who Are the Taliban?] Reference

Some say these casualties are undermining popular acceptance of the American-backed interim government.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iraq, the Press and the Election] Reference

Farmers can safely collect U. S.-funded seeds, and children will soon attend a new American-backed school.    From Wordnik.com.  [Local strongman is U.S. troops' most reliable friend in Kandahar province] Reference

The American-backed Pakistan army, responsible for almost a quarter of its economy, will never cede power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simon Jenkins: Meddling in Pakistan] Reference

We're now seeing a war within a war as American-backed Iraqi Baathists and tribal chiefs are attacking al Qaeda.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 23, 2007] Reference

Diem was the American-backed president of South Vietnam, and he was considered the No. 1 enemy of the communists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vietti, Eleanor A.] Reference

In an American-backed step to centralize power in 2004, President Karzai ousted Mr. Khan as Herat provincial governor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warlord's Defection Shows Afghan Risk] Reference

Already, the Pashtuns in the south regard the American-backed Tajiks who dominate Karzai's administration as the enemy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama’s Vietnam] Reference

These are an American-backed government's death squads that are out there roaming at night in government uniforms, Anderson.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 21, 2006] Reference

Iraqis would never accept the idea of an American-backed client regime, permanent military bases, and unequal trade arrangements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adam Elkus: Algiers, Grozny, Baghdad, and Washington] Reference

Then, at 9: 00 Eastern time, Iraqi journalists walk out on an American-backed newspaper and call for a free and independent media.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 8, 2004] Reference

Perceptions of that kind cause lasting damage to America's reputation and to the image of American-backed democracy around the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suzanne Nossel: Playing Hardball Politics in Iraq] Reference

If, however, this was the work of American-backed death squads, then the alternate goal of "governing through terror" has been achieved.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death Squad Democracy] Reference

In this video, he tells American Muslims their brothers in Somalia stood up to, quote, "oppressive rule by the American-backed warlords.".    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 11, 2007] Reference

As previously reported last month, an American-backed drive to protect U.N. employees who attempt to expose wrongdoing is also faltering.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.N. Allows Its Antifraud Task Force to Dissolve] Reference

The politics of divide and conquer which has led to American-backed civil war in Latin America, Iraq, Pakistan, and now in Gaza, must end.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jayne Lyn Stahl: U.S. Thwarts U.N. Demand for Gaza Cease Fire] Reference

Even the Japanese, who have always been resistant to American-backed sanctions, recently announced the suspension of new oil and gas investments.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Pressure Iran, Squeeze Russia and China] Reference

Are they trying to make more of this visit to say that he has fled, you know, in fear for his life with the advent of an American-backed crackdown?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 15, 2007] Reference

Unfortunately, many Pakistanis also still see the Taliban as offshoots of American-backed Afghanis who helped fight the Cold War for the United States.    From Wordnik.com.  [Olivia Sterns: Pakistan's Problem with Taliban Denial] Reference

• Karzai calls for ban on private security companies: His comments ratchet up recent tensions with the U.S. over two American-backed anticorruption agencies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Former justices back to the bench? And EEOC complaints on the rise] Reference

Everyone we spoke with here knows who funds Al-Hurra (ph) and Al - Iraqia (ph), the American-backed Iraqi station, and they take their news with a grain of salt.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 1, 2004] Reference

But they have definitely alienated some crucial old friends: the country's ethnic minorities, who have been a linchpin of Mr. Karzai's American-backed government.    From Wordnik.com.  [Karzai Divides Afghanistan in Reaching Out to Taliban] Reference

Does it matter who does and doesn't recognize the elections of the American-backed regime in Afghanistan, which was accused of electoral fraud on a similar scale?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama's Magical Surrealism in Honduras] Reference

And then those communities that did not have Iranian-backed militias to protect them, America funded and support American-backed militias to protect those communities.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 16, 2008] Reference

But veterans of Cold War-era programming say the influence of American-backed "surrogate" stations is diminished if they aren't viewed as independent players by local populations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Radio Farda Hits Delicate Balance] Reference