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...Violence is not a new phenomenon in the three southern provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat. In the 1970s and '80s, the region was buffeted by bouts of unrest, but those then taking up arms had independence as their goal?not jihad. By the 1990s the handful of guerrilla bands fighting for a separate state had been largely marginalized by the central government's conciliatory approach. Bangkok pumped development funds into the south, started governing through local leaders, including Muslims, and pardoned a host of insurgents. Relative calm returned, until this year. Now, say experts, what used...
...that is the rebels' goal, they will have to work hard to achieve it. The Samarra offensive played by the slippery rules of guerrilla warfare that U.S. troops have come to master more and more. The bulk of what intelligence suggests are 200 to 500 rebels is thought to be made up of local Baathists and former military officers fighting for a return of a Sunni-dominated government or national liberation. The rest are foreign jihadis and hard-core Iraqi Islamists heeding the call of terrorist leaders like Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi. For weeks, the al-Zarqawi fighters had made...
...think they teach beheading at Annapolis. I don't think they teach car bombing at West Point." DON HEWITT, creator of U.S. television program 60 Minutes, saying in a speech at the University of South Dakota that the U.S. is ill-prepared to fight a guerrilla war in Iraq...
...Cuban revolution, the movie runs into dead ends of sentiment (the little people Che bonds with include a gorgeous leper) and nearly sinks in bathos (he swims a wide river for one last visit to the leper colony). It's all to demonstrate the radicalizing of a guerrilla hero. "We wanted to show where Che came from and where he was going," García Bernal says. "So finding the tone was very delicate, like fine embroidery." Certainly his participation is faultless. He brings to the role a winsomeness and dawning wisdom. Before your eyes, a boy grows into an angry...
...DIED. EDDIE ADAMS, 71, American photojournalist whose shocking picture of a South Vietnam general executing a Vietcong guerrilla on the streets of Saigon changed the way people viewed the Vietnam War; in New York City. Working for the Associated Press, TIME and Parade magazine, Adams covered 13 wars and won more than 500 photojournalism awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for his Vietnam photograph. "I wasn't out to save the world," he once said of his work. "I was out to get a story...