Word: disarmed
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...seductive message. "We only do the things they do," he explained, referring to the equally barbaric tactics of the guerrillas. Occasionally he was wistful; he said he dreamed of taking his kids to Disneyworld. Years later, I heard that Casta?o had changed, that he wanted to disarm his mercenary brigades and maybe enter politics. But like Kurtz, he'd gone too far into the heart of darkness. And his older brother Vicente was already there, waiting...
...essentially unilateral action that had been used against Iraq in 2003 was no longer possible against Iran. A U.S. Administration that had once confidently bypassed the U.N. found it had no option but to turn to the U.N. Security Council in the hope that international pressure could disarm Hizballah and keep Iran from going nuclear. The colossus that once bestrode the globe seemed to be stuck in the Middle Eastern sands--and unable to prevent the seemingly inevitable confrontation between Iran and Israel...
...with a cross-border raid on July 12, said it abducted two Israeli soldiers in order to bargain for the release of Lebanese jailed in Israel. Yet, neither the soldiers nor the Lebanese prisoners were released under the cease-fire. Israel's attack on Lebanon sought to disarm Hizballah, but the truce's language conveniently sidestepped that explosive issue, vaguely leaving the job of keeping the peace in southern Lebanon to the Lebanese Army, with perhaps the support of international peacekeepers. The Lebanese government seeks Israel's withdrawal from the disputed Shebaa Farms territory as a prelude to disarming Hizballah...
...Will Disarm Hizballah...
...than symbolic numbers - and it will formally take possession of the areas vacated by withdrawing Israeli forces. But the Lebanese Army, whose forces in the south have traditionally been on good terms with Hizballah, and whose fighting forces are almost half Shi'ite, is unlikely to try and forcibly disarm Hizballah. France - which is slated to lead the U.N. force and be its major troop-contributor with some 5,000 men - has said the same thing...