Word: guerrillas
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...group last month. He's still missing the point, says one frustrated officer: "It's an irrelevant comparison because those types of encounters are rare or nonexistent in Iraq." Says another officer: "We're not fighting the Big Red Soviet Army here, we're dealing with hit-and-run guerrilla warfare...
...ground, in many cases, than his boss, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. In the summer of 2003, after Rumsfeld had denied Iraq was facing an insurgency, Abizaid made his first appearance in the Pentagon press briefing room and boldly countered that in fact the U.S. was facing a guerrilla war. And last August, before Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, it was Abizaid who said Iraq was "as bad as I've ever seen it," and that it may be on the verge of civil...
Amidst religious tensions, guerrilla warfare, and human rights violations, Anna was the only journalist unafraid of asking questions and writing answers. She brought the Russian military excesses to the Russian public sphere. Almost raped, almost deported, and almost killed several times, she reported summary executions, torture, and starvation. During the famous Moscow theatre kidnapping in 2002 that ended in tragedy, the Chechen terrorists only trusted Anna to mediate with the police authorities...
Uncompromising, Anna was truthful to both sides. She wrote about under-armed and underfed Russian conscripts and about ailing Chechen civilians. She wrote about Chechens terrorizing Russian populations and Russian torture camps for irregular guerrilla fighters. No wonder passionate fan mail vied with vivid death threats in her letterbox...
...like in Poland or in East Germany in 1953," he said last week, "this was a real revolution. There was no consultation; it just jumped up here and there." Despairing at the brutality of a particularly nasty communist regime, ordinary citizens in Budapest - students, office workers - turned themselves into guerrilla fighters almost literally overnight, learning on the job, as it were, how to lure a Soviet tank down a narrow alley and bomb it with Molotov cocktails. "There was a tremendous euphoria, especially after the Russians agreed to a cease-fire and withdrew to their barracks," says Lessing. "People thought...