Word: guerrillas
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...with Saddam Hussein. Not officially. But quietly, over the past few months, some of its savviest warriors have sneaked into his country. They have been secretly prowling the Kurdish-controlled enclave in northern Iraq, trying to organize a guerrilla force that could guide American soldiers invading from the north, hunting for targets that U.S. warplanes might bomb, setting up networks to hide U.S. pilots who might be shot down and mapping out escape routes to get them out. And they are doing the same in southern Iraq with dissident Shi'ites...
...deeper bench than the spooks at Langley. And in Afghanistan, the Pentagon was regularly asked to supply the CIA with people from that bench. The Defense Department already has 44,000 Army, Navy and Air Force commandos in its U.S. Special Operations Command, who are as skilled in covert guerrilla warfare as the CIA's operatives. In the basement vaults of the command's headquarters at MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., sit secret contingency plans to send military special-ops teams to any trouble spot in the world, complete with infiltration routes, drop zones, intelligence contacts and assault points...
...Afghan men gathered around a truck, killing at least three of them. U.S. intelligence insists the men were an al-Qaeda band, but locals say they were nothing more than scrap dealers or smugglers. And as the agency tries to pull together rival Iraqi Kurdish forces into a viable guerrilla force that could take on Saddam, it must confront its sorry history in that territory. In 1995 it attempted to organize a Kurdish rebellion against Saddam, but in the end CIA officers fled their base in northern Iraq, abandoning their Kurdish agents to Iraqi police, who rounded up and executed...
...learns the lay of the land from those familiar with it, while Turkey gets firsthand knowledge of the movements of potential Kurdish adversaries, as well as some goodwill from Washington. Turkish troops have good reasons for wanting to know what the Kurds are up to. A separatist guerrilla group is based in the craggy mountains along the Turkey-Iraq border. To contain them, Turkey is planning ahead in other ways, a senior Turkish official said: the military has won U.S. approval to establish 17 refugee camps - 10 of them on Iraqi soil - as soon as war starts. Ankara wants...
...Afghanistan, a nation of skirmishing warlords and guerrilla fighters who strike quickly and then vanish, it's difficult to tell when one conflict ends and another begins. Last week, the biggest U.S. battle in Afghanistan in 10 months provided the latest reminder that the U.S. is still far from achieving a lasting peace in the strife-torn country?and that the Islamic jihadis arrayed against American troops and the government of Hamid Karzai are preparing to rachet up their terrorist...