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...during the 1980s, El Salvador was in a league of its own when it came to Cold War brutality. The country was strewn with countless victims of right-wing death squads, leftist guerrillas and a national army that enjoyed the backing of the Reagan Administration despite its penchant for civilian massacres. The war ended with a peace agreement in 1992 that ushered in a stable democracy. Ever since, at least until last Sunday, the presidency has been the exclusive preserve of the conservative Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) - whose party anthem still boasts that El Salvador is "the tomb where...
...Institute, a public-policy think tank: "It is tough enough for us to train human soldiers to distinguish between combatants and noncombatants on the battlefield. It is much more difficult to write software that does that." Goure adds, "How does a robot distinguish between a friendly ally, a local civilian or a hostile fighter? The distinguishing characteristics are for the most part very small. What are the distinguishing characteristics between an enemy column and a parade of religious pilgrims going to a holy festival? If there is a bunch of people waving banners in trucks driving toward you, is that...
...eventually sailed free of the Chinese fleet, which included, according to Pentagon officials, a Chinese navy intelligence-collection ship, a Bureau of Maritime Fisheries patrol vessel, a State Oceanographic Administration patrol vessel and two small Chinese-flagged trawlers. McCreary noted that the two fishing trawlers involved were about as "civilian" as the government-owned U.S. spy ship. (A Pentagon-produced story about the event said a "civilian crew mans the ship," a half-truth that was repeated around the world by other media outlets. In fact, about half its roughly 50-member crew is military.) "The Chinese, like the North...
...bonds they’ve forged here and the understanding of what their civilian counterparts do have carried over and that’s really important,” says Woodward. “You can probably tell I have a pretty high opinion of the folks who come through here and am greatly admiring of what they...
Zardari supporters argue that the Sharifs, by summoning tens of thousands of protesters to Islamabad, were intent on toppling the new civilian government and forced its hand. Islamabad officials warned that riots could potentially bring down the government, tip the country into deeper chaos or even invite military intervention. In 1977, a movement led by right-wing and religious forces similar to the opposition parties aligned with Sharif brought down the first PPP government, then run by Zardari's father-in-law, and paved the way for Zia ul-Haq to seize power in a military coup...