Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Boumedienne learned to kill as an urban terrorist and later as a guerrilla in the mountains. At 32 he commanded all the rebel forces in western Algeria. He admits only one regret: the war's fratricidal purges in which, says he, "I had to send thousands of comrades to their deaths." He adds coolly: "Some were killed by the French, others by internal strife." ∙ In 1960 Boumedienne was given the task of "forming a national army" in the security of training camps in Morocco and Tunisia. He carefully built and husbanded a crack fighting force equipped with Communist...
...tuberculous Colonel Houari Boumedienne. In opposition are the 20.000 troops of Wilaya 4, which consists of Algiers and the surrounding countryside, and is commanded by a 28-year-old former medical student, Colonel Si Hassan, who has the same Marxist views as his archfoe, Boumedienne. The 10,000 seasoned guerrilla fighters of Wilaya j, covering the rugged mountains of Kaby-lia, also oppose Ben Bella and have promised to come to Si Hassan's aid if the Politburo and Colonel Boumedienne try to seize Algiers...
...efforts to put down the revolt have been a dismal failure. He distrusts his army because one-third of its troops are of Kurdish stock, never gives raiding parties more than two days' supplies and ammunition lest they go over to the rebels. Fighting a hide-and-seek guerrilla war, the Kurds have made fools of Kassem's generals, currently have 2½ divisions -half of Kassem's army-tied up in the frustrating campaign...
Adams then began to talk to the soldier about what he would do if he were spotted. The soldier's guerrilla leader broke in: "My men don't get out where they can be spotted. They're killers." That seemed to satisfy the man charged with the responsibility of whipping STRIKE into shape to put out, if necessary, a flaring brushfire war in some neglected corner of the world...
...women go barebreasted, and men wear only loincloths. Though they inhabit more than half the land of South Viet Nam, the montagnards consider the Vietnamese to be carpetbaggers who came into the hills only to exploit them and steal their land. Taking advantage of this loathing, Communist Viet Cong guerrilla cadres from the north moved into the mountains, adopted tribal customs, even took montagnard wives in an effort to persuade the mountain people to join their ranks...