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...secret meeting took place earlier this year on the outskirts of Baghdad, in a safe house known only to the insurgents in attendance. One of them, an Iraqi known by the nom de guerre Abu Marwan, is a senior commander of the leading Baathist guerrilla group called the Army of Mohammed. Together with a representative of an alliance of Iraqi Islamist insurgent groups, Abu Marwan met aides to Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq. The purpose was to discuss the idea of uniting under a joint command the disparate networks fighting U.S. forces in Iraq...
...graduate who grew up in Washington, D.C., has written an extraordinary debut novel, Beasts of No Nation (HarperCollins), that is basking in critical acclaim. The book tells the story of Agu, a child soldier in an unnamed country in Western Africa, who has been recruited by a unit of guerrilla fighters after watching his own father being slaughtered. The author visited Nigeria, where his mother is currently the finance minister, frequently when he was growing up, and lived there last year, working with refugees. We chatted with Iweala by phone...
...Prabhakaran's verdict on the new President?who has proposed direct peace talks with him?will likely become known on Nov. 27. At a torch-lit ceremony in Tiger territory to remember the 20,000 rebels who have died in Sri Lanka's civil war since 1983, the guerrilla leader will make his annual policy address. His words, as much as Rajapakse's victory, will decide whether Sri Lanka's future is peace or more...
...sides, and it is easy to forget now that almost everyone, even the French, believed that the weapons existed. But there was nothing principled about the Administration's failure to recognize that lethal chaos was likely to follow the invasion. There was a delusional unwillingness to plan for a guerrilla insurgency, especially on the part of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who vastly underestimated the number of troops necessary for the operation-and who uttered some of the most embarrassing words ever spoken by a U.S. official as anarchy took hold. "Stuff happens," Rumsfeld said, when asked about the looting...
Want to know the latest on the hostages held by Peru's Tupac Amaru rebels? Check out the rebels' home page on the World Wide Web. Mexico's Zapatistas, Peru's Shining Path and Afghanistan's Taliban also boast Internet sites maintained by supporters. For today's guerrilla, the modem offers the best means to disseminate communiques, show off a pictorial gallery of brothers-in-arms--and even replenish the war chest by selling T shirts, videos and books...