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...local population while moving into position. Pentagon officials say this unusually public "shaping" of the battlefield has one key goal: while hundreds of hard-core Taliban are hunkering down for a fight, many more, along with thousands of residents, have fled Marja until the dust settles. That should limit civilian casualties and, they hope, lure some lukewarm Taliban over to the government side. "We're not interested in how many Taliban we kill," Army General Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S., commander in Afghanistan, said Thursday. "We'd much rather have them see the inevitability that things are changing and just...
...November, Fonseka resigned his post after falling out with Rajapaksa, whom he claimed was trying to sideline him within the country's military hierarchy and was taking too much credit as a civilian for waging a war fought by Fonseka's troops...
...both disgusted at the way they have treated me and extremely disillusioned ... [My government-assigned security guards] are all new men. They could be an assassination squad - maybe they are trying to assassinate me." - After stepping down from his military position and entering civilian life in the opposition (Sunday Leader...
...Civilian Takes Charge...
...interim Prime Minister Jan. 26, a crucial step toward ending the country's military rule. A critic of the staunch regime, Doré has pledged "free, transparent and credible elections" within the year. An assassination attempt and subsequent exile forced Guinea's unpopular strongman, Moussa Dadis Camara, to allow a civilian interim leader. Some fear he continues to meddle from his base in Burkina Faso...