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...Albanian minority - after all, it is those grievances that have created fertile soil for the extremists to grow their insurgency. NATO was also aware that the ham-fisted Macedonian military might make a mess of a counterinsurgency campaign against the lightly-armed but mobile guerrilla forces and cause civilian casualties that would irreversibly radicalize the Albanian population...
...military onslaught. Vladimir Putin, in his most famous sound bite ever, promised in gangster language to "rub out" the separatist commanders, even if they were on "the john." But something has gone badly wrong. The guerrillas are back in the cities and towns. The Kremlin has turned against the civilian it put in charge of Chechnya, Akhmad Kadyrov, and replaced the military commander. And Russian officials from the President down now say it could take many years to wipe out the separatist guerrillas...
...once touted by the Russians as proof of their own success, is now turning into a deadly problem for them. Groups of four or five fighters emerge to attack and then fade back into the population. The common Russian response-round-ups and house-to-house raids-only heightens civilian hostility to the occupiers. The Russian government admits to 3,096 troops dead since October 1999-not far off the 3,800 officially listed as killed during the war of 1994-96. Activists from the Committee of Soldiers' Mothers say the real death toll is almost double the official figure...
...what exactly will Israel do? After all, Hamas and Islamic Jihad plan terror attacks in tiny groups based in the civilian population. They have no formal address, and can't be targeted by F-16s. How will "going to war" make Israel safe from terror attacks...
...just felt that we couldn't agree with the principles on which they based their rally," says Rita Hamad `03, current president of SAS. "We wanted to show people that you can't mourn the deaths of all civilians and then support the organization that is causing the majority of those civilian deaths...