Word: guerrillaism
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Gaviria responded that Colombia has long had guerrilla warfare within its borders, and that the renewed attention to terrorism will help Colombia manage the problem more effectively...
...Guerrilla warfare] is a complex situation.... The world’s closing tolerance for terrorism and political violence will help Colombia,” he said. “Colombia doesn’t have the capacity to handle the situation alone, but a better international environment will help...
...separate zones for each of its component ethnic militia that march separately but fight together. In the south, the Taliban appear to have been driven out of their last urban strongholds in Kandahar and Jalalabad, headed, no doubt, for the hills where they'll hope to reprise the mujahedeen guerrilla tradition. But reports suggest much of the post-Taliban south is now being carved up among various local Pashtun commanders. Fighters loyal to Arif Khan, a local tribal leader, are said to hold Kandahar's airport. One Yunus Khalis has claimed Jalalabad and the Pakistani border town of Torkham...
...until last week the Northern Alliance showed few signs of war readiness. Three weeks ago, near Mazar-i-Sharif, a rebel charge was turned back by a Taliban counteroffensive because the Alliance's four rival commanders failed to coordinate their attacks. In the north, the Alliance's loose-knit guerrilla bands are plagued by ethnic infighting, inexperience and customary drug use. The preferred narcotic is a potent, pungent hashish that is smoked by Alliance and Taliban soldiers alike from dinner until midnight. Alliance soldiers say they make up for their lack of Western-style military discipline with versatility...
...beds of their Datsun pickups--the regime more recently has won by attrition, digging forces in deep and attacking in mass formations. But the American bombings have flushed Taliban soldiers into the open and forced many of them to return to their roots--the mobile, hit-and-run guerrilla tactics they know best. "Their forces seem to be composed largely of fanatics," says Julie Sirrs, a former analyst for the Defense Intelligence Agency, "or conscripts whom the Taliban are willing to toss into the fire." The hardest core--about 10,000 men, most of them foreigners--will fight...