Dispatches November 24, 2008

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Dispatches host Rick MacInnes-Rae knows what it is like to be an eyewitness to history. Go beyond the headlines with correspondents on assignment all over the globe. In repeats over the summer.

Sun Nov 23 19:00:00 EST 2008

Cocaine loves chaos. Guinea-Bissau is fast becoming the drug cartels' country of choice. In Darfur last year, 12 peacekeepers were slaughtered by a rebel force. The International Criminal Court is now considering indicting the rebel leaders. The accidental shark fishery of Ecuador is a real bad accident for the sharks. And, standup comedy comes to the Middle East, a place where the religious and the royal are very sensitive about their subjects.