Word: guerrillaism
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...chief fund raiser and its field commander in Jordan. Arafat (his code name is Abu Ammar) sits at a wooden desk in his headquarters in Amman, dealing with a procession of couriers like a general on a field of battle, which in a sense he is. When a guerrilla comes in to report a successful raid, Arafat's eyes, bulging almost to the panes of the dark glasses he wears day and night, dance with delight. He speaks softly and turns aside all questions about himself. "Please, no personality cult. I am only a soldier. Our leader is Palestine...
...Ashley Wills, U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka, suspects Prabhakaran may find it impossible to leave behind his days as a guerrilla despot, always on the run, always planning the next military ambush or presiding over yet another farewell dinner for a cadre being sent off on a suicide bombing mission, one of Prabhakaran's signature rituals. "There's nothing I'd like more than for him to prove me wrong," says Wills, "but I have my doubts." Prabhakaran's supporters, however, have none. Vasantha, 21, says: "Our leader knows best. We will agree to whatever he decides." Even if that...
...rather than rewarding terrorism, peace processes are designed to challenge terrorism by offering a non-violent political alternative through which disenfranchised peoples can pursue their national goals. History's lesson is that whatever victories an occupying army wins against a popular guerrilla enemy are almost invariably temporary. Political solutions that would be labeled by the hawks as "rewarding terrorism" are in fact the norm in solving armed conflicts...
...South Africa's Nelson Mandela is internationally regarded as an unimpeachable moral giant today, but it's worth remembering that his African National Congress fought a 29-year guerrilla war against the apartheid regime which at one point included a series of terrorist attacks on civilians in shopping malls and bars. Yet it was with the same organization that the white minority regime finally negotiated the transition to democratic majority rule...
...came out of the bunker, AK-47 first. His comrades watched from behind mounted machine guns as he leaned down and asked curt questions. Where were we going? How long would we stay? He stood up, squinted at our bags, and finally waved us through, convinced we weren't guerrilla operatives. We were just going to the beach...