Word: insurgentes
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Inside the Insurgency Congratulations to TIME's reporters for "Life Behind Enemy Lines," the inside story of the insurgent Iraqis fighting U.S. troops [Dec. 15]. This is exactly the kind of in-depth reporting that has been needed since America got into the war. The voice of the enemy is...
Congratulations to TIME's reporters for "Life Behind Enemy Lines," the inside story of the insurgent Iraqis fighting U.S. troops [Dec. 15]. This is exactly the kind of in-depth reporting that has been needed since America got into the war. The voice of the enemy is one that the...
Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, furious that a battalion base had been overrun, declared that the four soldiers killed that night "deserved to die." He imposed martial law in three of the five southern provinces and acknowledged that the south harbors an Islamic insurgent movement bent on creating unrest within Thailand...
Not all the rank-and-file fighters are die-hard Saddam supporters. Many are thought to be devout Iraqi Muslims who believe that fighting "infidel" occupiers is a Koranic imperative. Tensions exist between former military officers and paid militia, called fedayeen in insurgent circles, and the Muslim fighters who label...
I'm puzzled by the insistence that there is a fully organized al-Qaeda--type organization behind the Muslim fanatics who are bent on purging the Middle East of Western influence. Why credit al-Qaeda for every fanatic's act? The facts are simple: there are many disenfranchised Muslim males...