Word: guerrilla
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...extinguish a decades-old conflict between Indonesian government troops and separatist rebels of the Free Aceh Movement (known as GAM by its initials in Bahasa Indonesian), who laid down their weapons in 2005. Despite sporadic political violence, Aceh's war is over. One enterprising local travel agent even offers "guerrilla tours" to GAM's former jungle strongholds...
Health Care reform allowing, President Barack Obama will leave behind the detritus of legislative guerrilla warfare and a blizzard that froze the nation's capital to head for vacation. He is going home to the place he was born: Hawaii...
...called the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), led by a former businessman named Henry Okah. Then, in September 2007, Okah was imprisoned on charges of treason, terrorism, illegal possession of firearms and arms trafficking. Since his release in July, he has fallen out with other guerrilla leaders...
Zuma, on the other hand, was a low-ranking guerrilla in the ANC's armed wing who rose to the leadership of its ruthless intelligence unit. He plotted bomb attacks and assassinations and ordered the killing of suspected traitors. There was nothing intellectual about such work. In an interview with TIME in early 2007, Zuma summarized his revolutionary ideology in one short sentence: "I was oppressed." Not for Zuma the intellectual contortions that led even Mandela to cast crime as a white, counterrevolutionary plot or Mbeki to see AIDS as a Western drug-company conspiracy. Not for him either...
...assassinations are not uncommon. Umarov, the self-appointed leader of the Caucasus emirate he proclaimed in 2007, is now waging a terrorist campaign to turn at least six regions into a new, independent state governed by radical Islamic law. Up to now, his methods have focused on localized guerrilla warfare, sending suicide bombers or gunmen to hit police targets or pick off officials from the Kremlin-backed regional governments...