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...cause the fire in the school, and tanks were called in only after all the surviving hostages had been freed. Kesayev, who was in the Russian emergency command center in Beslan throughout the crisis, also claims that the Kremlin deliberately failed to respond to an offer by moderate Chechen guerrilla leader Aslan Maskhadov (killed by Russian special forces in March) to negotiate the hostages' release. That assertion is supported by a former Russian official who was also in the Beslan command center: "Someone higher up decided: 'Why make Maskhadov a hero?'" Russian officials reject the assertion, voicing doubts that Maskhadov...
...constantly shifting game of one-upmanship, it was the insurgents who notched a new level of deadliness last week. The worst fighting is taking place in western Iraq, where U.S. forces are trying to disrupt Sunni guerrilla operations and destroy training camps used by foreign and Iraqi terrorists. Haditha sits on the Euphrates along a corridor of lush green hills and ravines that U.S. officers say has become a vital ratline for jihadist recruits crossing from Syria and a rest-and-recoup zone for fighters from the violent Sunni triangle. Patrolling on foot and in convoy, Marines have...
...words, Philip Agee. Agee was a CIA officer who spent most of his 11-year career in Latin America. He resigned in 1969 and devoted himself to bringing down the agency for its alleged complicity with repressive Third World regimes. Engaging in what he termed "guerrilla journalism," Agee wrote a 1975 memoir, Inside the Company: CIA Diary, featuring a 24-page appendix made up of agents' names and operations. Later that year Richard Welch, a CIA station officer in Athens, was assassinated. Welch was not one of the agents outed in Agee's book (and his identity...
...Some of the groups challenging Arroyo have been against every Philippine President for decades. The left has called for revolution since the 1960s; it has representatives in Congress, but is also linked to the 10,000-strong guerrilla New People's Army, which fights the military in the Philippine countryside. Since Cory Aquino's time, disgruntled military men have attempted numerous coups?the most serious in 1989, when soldiers took over Manila's business district for more than a week...
Some Salvadorans saw the quake as a portent and reminder of the nation's bloody fighting. Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas, who has mediated between the government and guerrilla forces, called the tragedy a sign from God. It was "specially directed," said the Archbishop, "to those that have the power of decision" to end the civil...