Word: guerrillaism
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...what will America's top guerrilla docu-comic do after Sicko? "I think it's time for a romantic comedy," he told TIME. But surely there are other bones of contention sticking in his throat. The political use of religion should appeal to this leftie who's still a practicing Catholic. Or how about the threat of climate change and the waters rising over Moore's Manhattan home. What if he were to blend the two issues? He could take as his text this quote from God, straight from the Bible: "I establish my covenant with you, that never again...
...latest victory in the war on terrorism took place on the night of May 11 in Helmand province, Afghanistan. U.S. intelligence had tracked Mullah Dadullah, thought to be the Taliban's top guerrilla commander, to a location near the border with Pakistan. By all accounts, what happened next was a model of surgical counterterrorism. When it was over, the Americans delivered Dadullah's corpse to Afghan authorities, who draped it in hot-pink sheets and displayed it for photographers in Kandahar, a ghoulish ritual that now attends the killing of any high-value terrorist target...
...years of independence, the former Indonesian province has been ruled largely by the same coterie of independence campaigners whose 24-year struggle to free East Timor from Jakarta's grip resonated with the nation's 1 million citizens. Gusmão fought for East Timor's freedom as a guerrilla commander in the mountainous jungle, while Ramos-Horta pleaded his homeland's cause in the halls of the United Nations. Even Francisco Guterres, Ramos-Horta's opponent in this week's presidential run-off, had been a veteran resistance fighter against Indonesia, under whose rule up to 200,000 East...
Along the mountainous, 2,600-km span of the Durand Line-the porous border separating Afghanistan and Pakistan-a notorious jihadi is on the loose. He is responsible for guerrilla attacks, sabotage and cruel executions; his religious fanaticism inspires multitudes and threatens to destabilize much of Southwest Asia. Thousands of Western soldiers desperately search for the renegade terrorist in inhospitable terrain. But each time they have him cornered, he and his militia slip away into hidden valleys and caves...
...Both the Mahdi Army and the Sunni insurgents are working from the classic guerrilla warfare playbook: avoid confrontations with concentrations of better-armed enemy forces; lie low or mount attacks elsewhere to stretch his forces. It's been this way, in one form or another, since the insurgency began in the summer of 2003. And it's a reminder that no matter how thoughtful and well-executed the military strategy is, its effectiveness will be determined by the political reality...