Word: chieftain
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...officials have sought to lay the blame for the bloodshed on foreign terrorists. They point to a call for instigating civil strife that was contained in an intercepted letter allegedly written by Jordanian terrorist chieftain Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi. Said Bremer: "We know they did this as part of an effort to promote sectarian violence among Muslims ... because they believe that is the only way to stop Iraq's march toward the democracy terrorists fear." In the aftermath of Tuesday's carnage, Iraqi leaders of all stripes were quick to urge their constituents not to turn on ethnic or religious...
Europe first encountered the Philippines in 1521, when Ferdinand Magellan claimed the archipelago for Spain?and ended up dead after a battle with local chieftain Lapu Lapu. Jessica Hagedorn's Dream Jungle starts with an excerpt from a contemporary account of Magellan's Philippine visit, which describes comely native women clad in nothing but thin strips of bark "before their privies," suggesting that conquest can be inspired as much by lust as God and king...
Karzai, who in June 2002 was confirmed in his job by a tribal assembly called a loya jirga, was a royal chieftain from the majority Pashtun tribe who, with some U.S. arm twisting, was found acceptable by the minority Tajiks, Uzbeks and Hazaras. Having no army of his own, he was unthreatening to the country's warlords. With his fluent English, stoic bearing and good fashion sense, he seemed a comforting figure to the U.S. and the U.N. But as he nears the two-year mark on the job, the Karzai model is barely working for Karzai himself...
...Romulo Kintanar, November 1988, former New People's Army chieftain and his wife do a runner while attending a warden's birthday party
...learned during a decade of small wars in Somalia, Bosnia and Kosovo--cannot be applied. Peacekeepers work best when they move in small groups, mingling with the local population, stopping to drink coffee and share a smoke, listening for that key bit of gossip about where the local party chieftain is hiding. But because the Iraqi opposition is going after the "onesies and twosies," says a Pentagon official, U.S. troops will be tempted to hunker down and stay in large groups, protected by vehicles and the full battle rattle of helmets and body armor. You can't collect intelligence that...