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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/armed-police-drive-out-drug-gangs-in-battle-for-rios-slums-6261943.html 

"Helicopters hovered as hundreds of police, supported by the Brazilian army, flooded into Rocinha, a labyrinth of ramshackle houses perched on a hill overlooking some of Rio's most affluent neighbourhoods. The slum is thought to be the source of much of the cocaine distributed in the city. Not a single shot was fired and, according to reports, just one person was arrested, in an apparent vindication of the authorities' decision to announce the raid days earlier to avoid bloody gun battles."



"They will know heghan belongs to the helghast"

"England expects that everyman will do his duty"

"we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender"