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...about pure, good intentions, being together as a community,” says recent convert Susan Lieu ’07. Max A. Newman ’07 is responsible for Lieu’s newfound hobby. Newman has introduced what he calls “guerrilla warfare tactics” to form a troop of dedicated contra enthusiasts. The craze has spread from his Grays East entryway all the way to Straus—and this Fairbanks, Alaska native has big plans for expansion...
...This is not a time of happiness; this is a time of relief and composure." ARIEL SHARON, Israeli Prime Minister, at an airport ceremony to receive the bodies of three Israeli soldiers in an exchange with the Lebanese guerrilla group Hizballah for the release of 429 prisoners...
...made his name by ordering the re-invasion of Chechnya. Military commanders promised a speedy victory; instead, a radical, fundamentalist wing of the guerrilla movement has brought the war to the heart of Russia. In the past nine months, over 200 people have died in a wave of terrorist attacks, including the bombing of commuter trains in southern Russia and blasts at a Moscow rock concert and outside a luxury hotel opposite the Kremlin. Many of the attacks are the work of suicide bombers, often women. No one has yet claimed responsibility for the latest atrocity, but Putin...
Sheik Hassan Assi could see that the burly Kurdish guerrilla leader was in no mood to bargain. The Kurd, he recalls, backed him against a wall and shook his forefinger, saying, "Shame on you, Sheik, for building a house on Kurdish land. You knew we would be back one day, even if it took us 100 years!" For Assi, an Arab, it was not just a house but a dream home, a resplendent country estate on the outskirts of Kirkuk, on which he had spent his life's fortune. The Kurd, Mohammed Abdullah, had moved into the house after...
...Muhammad's leader, warrior-cleric Maulana Masood Azhar. When Azhar was released from an Indian jail in a prisoner exchange in December 2000, he was permitted to stage a huge rally in Karachi attended by gun-toting followers. In 2001 Musharraf even tried unsuccessfully to persuade the various Kashmiri guerrilla groups to unite under Azhar...