Word: guerrillas
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...Rahman, the blind Egyptian cleric now in jail in the U.S. who is linked to the suspects in the bombing of New York City's World Trade Center last February. Mubarak claims some of the fighters came back by way of Iran and Sudan and received subversive training in guerrilla camps there. The extremists, he says, "want to destabilize Egypt, the one Arab country that made peace with Israel, so it will be easy for them to destabilize all the countries in this area...
Step 1: in an attack by Islamic Resistance, the military wing of Hizballah, seven Israeli soldiers were killed in southern Lebanon. Step 2: Israel retaliated with an air attack on Shi'ite Muslim guerrilla bases in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. Two more Israeli soldiers died in a subsequent attack. Last week 395 Palestinians who have been stranded in southern Lebanon since being deported by Israel last December agreed to a plan that would return just under half of them to the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip next month. Israel says the remaining deportees will return home this December...
...commander of the Revolutionary Guard. Reportedly, Iran agreed to provide Sudan with oil and technical aid in exchange for Sudanese livestock and wheat and promised to send Iranian Revolutionary Guards to train Sudanese Popular Defense Forces. U.S. officials say the Guards also offered instruction in subversion and guerrilla warfare for would-be terrorists. Tehran then sent Majid Kamal, the man who helped the Lebanese Shi'ites organize Hizballah, as its ambassador to Sudan...
...they're not. Witness the experience of British engineer David Rowbottom and his Australian cousin Tania Miller, who were entranced by the promise of dramatic vistas in Turkey until they found themselves staring down the gun barrels of insurgents from the Kurdistan Workers Party, a guerrilla group lately kidnapping tourists as part of its war for independence. After packing Rowbottom and Miller around the backcountry for five weeks to avoid searches by the Turkish army, the guerrillas freed the couple last week. Rowbottom and Miller expressed relief at being released alive and unharmed. They did not indicate, however, whether they...
Those talks are supposed to resume in late August, if Secretary of State Warren Christopher can nudge the players from their deadlock when he visits the region this week. That prospect provided the background for the seven-day barrage. Both guerrilla groups targeted by the Israelis -- Hizballah and Ahmad Jibril's Popular Front -- are dedicated to the destruction of Israel and violently oppose the peace process that began 21 months...