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...After a violent week in Iraq, which saw a spike in attacks and car bombings, a civilian helicopter shot down with 11 killed, 20 Iraqi troops taken from their trucks and executed near the western city of Haditha and a number of bodies fished from the Tigris south of Baghdad, losing experienced officers to a newly energized insurgency is not something the Americans want to see. But Abu Laith is ready to fight for the insurgency if the Shi'ite leadership comes for him. "We are professional men and we know how to fight," he said. "If the government...
...Civilian-funded troops are unconventional and unprecedented. In the past, the UN deployed peacekeeping missions and funded them as necessary. However, in the case of Darfur, the UN has shown reluctance and continues to withhold from sending troops to the troubled region. Responsibility has, instead, shifted to the AU, whose peacekeeping troops’ mandate is yet to be ratified by a majority of the states. This will be the first deployment of AU troops and these soldiers have the daunting task of policing a region the size of France on a mandate to observe and report that all parties...
...transition to civilian rule should allow the U.S. to increase military aid to the Guatemalan army, which has been locked in a costly war with leftist guerrillas since the early 1980s. Although the rebels were nearly exterminated in a counterinsurgency drive four years ago, they have grown back to a force of 5,000, according to their own estimate. "The fighting has increased, and will increase no matter who takes office," said a guerrilla spokesman in Guatemala City last week. The heightened activity is most evident in the country's western department of San Marcos and the northern jungles...
...Congress has authorized up to $10 million in military aid for Guatemala for fiscal 1986, provided a civilian government can demonstrate progress in reducing political murders and kidnapings. According to the U.S. embassy, only 440 people have died from political violence during the first nine months of this year, compared with 992 in all of 1984. Much of the killing is committed by rightwing death squads and the military. In addition, some 38,000 Guatemalans reportedly have disappeared under mysterious circumstances since...
...years ago, Ruzicka founded her own human rights group, Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict She set herself the momentous task of tracking the civilian victims of collateral damage in Iraq and began lobbying Congress for compensation, convincing U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy to put a special fund in last year's foreign aid bill. The $17.5 million promised so far is just part of her legacy. Ruzicka's short life, so packed with adventure and achievement, is proof that belief and resolve can achieve incredible things...