Word: guerrillas
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Mullah Omar is believed to have spent the summer moving throughout southwestern Afghanistan. According to Taliban spokesman Mohammed Mukhtar Mujahid, Omar has formed a 10-man leadership council and assigned each lieutenant a region to destabilize. This guerrilla war cabinet includes Mullah Dadullah Akhund, a one-legged intelligence chief who in March ordered the execution of a Salvadorean Red Cross worker in Uruzgan province , and several top leaders. A Taliban field commander tells TIME that Taliban cells have been established and charged with specific responsibilities, such as bombings, preventing children from going to school or burning schools down, attacking government...
Iraq, like Gaul, is divided into three parts--and the U.S. has more serious pacification problems, and a less vivid set of pacification options, than Caesar did. The Bush Administration says the country is largely quiet--but a successful guerrilla war doesn't require much more than a fervent handful of fighters. In Iraq there are on average a dozen attacks against American soldiers each day. There are countless acts of sabotage. There is massive theft of oil, copper (from power lines) and electrical equipment. And there are the now weekly high-profile terrorist acts, like the bombing...
...Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), or CPN(M), a renegade Maoist group, commands twice the backing of its nearest (royalist) rival. The CPN(M) forms the backbone of the Maoist rebellion that began in 1996, which aims to eject the monarchy and take the country into Stalinist isolation. The guerrillas have an attachment to an antique dogma that borders on the bizarre in the 21st century. Much to the embarrassment of the modern Chinese leadership to the north, they studiously model their uprising on Mao Zedong's Basic Tactics (1937) and On Guerrilla Warfare (1937). Their rhetoric is filled with...
...problem--one that all armies have faced when confronting guerrilla forces--is that search-and-destroy missions in urban areas run the risk of losing local hearts and minds, which is the last thing the U.S. needs in Iraq. U.S. officials may say, in the words of one White House aide, "We're more than happy to have the [2004 presidential] election become a debate on whether or not it was the right decision to go to war in Iraq," but an endless drip of American casualties might knock the edge off that bluster. And such an outcome is possible...
...meet scheduling targets. NASA promised to comply fully with the findings. Grim Reckoning PERU The government-appointed Truth and Reconciliation Commission claimed at least 69,000 people died or disappeared during two decades of rebel and state-sponsored violence, almost twice the previous estimates. The commission blamed the Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path for more than half of the killings carried out between 1980 and 2000, and government troops for much of the rest. Most of the victims were Quechua-speaking peasants. Nuclear Traces IRAN The U.N.'s nuclear weapons watchdog confirmed that inspectors found particles of highly enriched uranium...