Word: loyalist
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...buildings and farmland as global warming took hold, with the London region particularly at risk. IVORY COAST Moral: Don't Leave Home An attempted coup d'état convulsed one of sub-Saharan Africa's richest but most politically fragile countries while President Laurent Gbagbo was in Italy. Loyalist soldiers killed the man accused of leading the uprising, General Robert Guei, the former military ruler who was himself ousted in a 1999 coup. Heavy fighting began in the commercial capital Abidjan before dawn on Thursday and spread to two other main towns, which the rebels still held at week...
...weight would be given to any evidence that paramilitaries are engaged in training and targeting and the acquisition or development of weapons. The announcement came during a week of continuing sectarian violence in which a Roman Catholic man, Gerald Lawlor, 19, was killed by the Ulster Freedom Fighters, a Loyalist terror group. FRANCE Spy Chief Sacked President Jacques Chirac fired the head of France's foreign intelligence service, the DGSE. The spy agency is accused of launching a probe that resulted in two reports, in 1999 and 2000, into the nature of Chirac's links with disgraced Japanese banker Shoichi...
...recent incursions into the West Bank. Israeli helicopter gunships opened fire with machine guns on the nearby West Bank town of Jenin and tanks rolled into surrounding neighborhoods. Tanks also destroyed much of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's headquarters. NORTHERN IRELAND A Sinn Fein Mayor Elected in Belfast Against Loyalist protests, votes from nonsectarian Alliance Party councilors sealed the election win of Sinn Fein's Alex Maskey as lord mayor of Belfast - the first time the political wing of the I.R.A. has gained control of the city's council. The vote came after days of rioting and shootings that injured...
...while Gonzales may face future political opposition from both hard-line conservatives who oppose some of his social positions, as well as liberal Democrats who oppose his conservative record as a Bush loyalist, it is clear that his is a name to watch...
...Justice Department brief was filed in response to a motion filed by Reid's lawyers objecting to constraints on his contacts with his defense team. The prosecutors argued that Reid's communications must be carefully monitored by the government because he "is a committed loyalist who attempted to commit mass murder as part of a terrorist campaign against this nation - a campaign which deploys techniques of stealth and secrecy, including codes and 'hidden messages...