The Top 10 Everything of 2009

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6. Armed and Dangerous

Guinea-Bissau drug dealers settle a score

Marco Vernaschi / Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting

Local drug dealers settle a score in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau. In the past few years, the small West African nation has become a key transit point for drug cartels from South America.

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