Word: insurgentes
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About 40 miles south, where Kurdish territory runs into the Sunni heartland, there are growing fears of insurgent attacks. Iraqis are now in charge of trying to maintain security. The police station at Tuz Khurmatu is surrounded by concrete barriers and barbed wire, and its 20 officers have new flak...
Without security, talk of democracy is academic. "If we can't stop people from being shot downtown, it's all just words," says Lieut. Colonel Steve Russell of the 1-22 Infantry Battalion, 4th Infantry Division's 1st Brigade based in Tikrit. By one measure, at least, security has improved...
Like most movies, this one favors the underdog, the insurgent, the solitary hero against the powerful. Gibson's Jesus is a traditional movie rebel. He shows steely contempt for authority, chastens his mates for being slackers and argues with his Father--the God who sent him on this sacred suicide...
With another insurgent group, the Karen National Union, now in historic cease-fire talks with Rangoon, pressure on the S.S.A. to sit round the negotiating table with its sworn enemies will only increase. For now, however, it lurks in the mountain mist, a ghostly army for a haunted people.
Both Aref and Abbas say it was simple walking back over the mountains into Iraq to join the war against the Americans. Once inside, however, they faced a splintered insurgent movement, continually hiding from the Americans. "We had different ideas. Some of us thought the suicide bombs were useless," said...