Word: guerrillaism
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...last year's agreement makes him persona non grata. Ruling Sankoh out of the equation may help disorganize the rebels, but this war is about resources rather than politics, and as long as there are diamonds to be mined and powerful regional interests coveting them, there'll be guerrilla commanders willing to fight any attempts to restore government control over the mining territories...
...Kosovo, the West went to war to stop ethnic cleansing; in Sierra Leone the international community appears unable to muster the will and resources to stop a ragtag guerrilla band that has already killed and mutilated tens of thousands more people than Slobodan Milosevic's forces ever did. The U.S. moved Monday to shore up the beleaguered U.N. peacekeeping mission to the war-torn west African country by offering to fly some 700 troops from Bangladesh into Sierra Leone, and also to provide logistical support should nearby Nigeria choose to resume its policing role in the former British colony...
...have Hafez Assad grinning - if he's able to, since a British newspaper reported over the weekend that the Syrian president recently suffered an incapacitating stroke. But Assad certainly has reason to smile, because the latest exchange of fire between the Jewish state and the Hezbollah guerrilla fighters just across the border casts a shadow over Israel's plan to complete its withdrawal from Lebanon without first concluding a land-for-peace deal with Syria. Hezbollah fired Katyushka rockets into the town of Shlomi on Friday, killing one soldier, following Israel's overnight strike on Lebanese power plants. The Israeli...
...unilaterally withdrawing from a war that was costing Israeli lives with little security benefit. That suited Hezbollah, which would with some justification claim to be the first army ever to have driven Israel from Arab territory. Instead of being reined in by the heavy hand of Damascus, the guerrilla movement found itself at liberty to step up attacks to reinforce its claim to the mantle of Lebanon's liberators. In the unilateral withdrawal scenario, Israel's only defense against rocket attacks on its northern population centers is the promise that retaliation would be swift and brutal. But Thursday...
Which is a problem, since unlike other conventional armies that find themselves confounded by poorly armed but elusive guerrilla opponents, the Sri Lankans are now outgunned by their guerrilla enemies. "The LTTE is better armed than the Sri Lankan army," says TIME New Delhi correspondent Meenakshi Ganguly. "In fact, a lot of their weapons once belonged to the army and were usurped by the Tigers when they overran the camps. The Tigers are also much more motivated than the army, which is facing problems of desertion and low recruitment because of the heavy casualties it has suffered in this conflict...