Word: guerrillaism
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...Hopes that the insurgency might be waning in the wake of January's elections have proved premature. It appears to have been retooling and reorganizing, launching a blistering wave of attacks that range from full-blown daylight assaults by guerrilla units to relentless terror strikes on Shiite and Kurdish civilians. More than 200 people have been killed in insurgent attacks since last Friday, and Baghdad sees an average of 20 insurgent attacks...
...series of bombings that killed at least 30 Iraqis in Baghdad in one day last week--suggests that some rebel groups have become more organized. Videotapes obtained by TIME from sources close to the insurgency appear to confirm the existence of makeshift training camps inside Iraq to teach recruits guerrilla warfare. The camps are tucked inside villages and conduct weapons-handling drills in remote fields. One tape shows four men in uniforms gathered in a dilapidated barracks facility in western Iraq and receiving instruction on how to fire a modified missile launcher. "We ask God to make this weak weapon...
...final assault came shortly after 3 p.m. Thursday. A guerrilla named Adela, who had held off the troops with her 50-cal. machine gun, was killed in a grenade attack, allowing soldiers to penetrate the last stronghold. The end came quickly. But as thousands of mourners gathered for the funerals of the victims, many Colombians wondered whether the sacrifice of so many innocent and illustrious civilians had been too high a price to pay for the victory. --By Michael S. Serrill. Reported by Bernard Diederich and Tom Quinn/Bogot...
...transition to civilian rule should allow the U.S. to increase military aid to the Guatemalan army, which has been locked in a costly war with leftist guerrillas since the early 1980s. Although the rebels were nearly exterminated in a counterinsurgency drive four years ago, they have grown back to a force of 5,000, according to their own estimate. "The fighting has increased, and will increase no matter who takes office," said a guerrilla spokesman in Guatemala City last week. The heightened activity is most evident in the country's western department of San Marcos and the northern jungles...
...legitimacy of the law itself. On one side stand the adherents of Critical Legal Studies, who charge that the American legal system and its supposedly disinterested rules are prime instruments of social injustice. On the other side are more traditional professors who contend that the faculty "crits" are waging "guerrilla warfare" at the law school. For Dean James Vorenberg, striving to stay neutral in the dispute, the result is "a tremendous sense of vibrancy and energy." But sometimes, he acknowledges, "things get out of hand...