Word: loyalist
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...grave, Pat Finucane is doing far greater damage to the British government in Northern Ireland than his brothers who took up arms against it. Last week the U.K.'s largest police investigation reported that the military and police in Northern Ireland had systematically colluded with the pro-British loyalists who murdered Finucane and many other nationalists. Criminal cases are being considered against a British brigadier, other army officers and serving members of the police. Dogged work by English detectives exposed an astonishing web of intrigue. One of the guns used to kill the lawyer was stolen from the British army...
...possible avenue of escape is the system of intricate tunnels that U.S. officials believe lie beneath Baghdad. Three, Saddam could choose the Samson option, the most frightening of all: once he realized he was finished, he could try to take with him as many enemies as possible. His loyalist forces might launch suicide attacks and fight from schools and mosques to force the Americans to destroy much of the city and kill many civilians. At the 11th hour, he could use his weapons of mass destruction--if he has them--against U.S. troops...
...pose for pictures in their newly issued equipment while brandishing AK-47's, often begging to be photographed. They all professed to wanting Saddam dead and shouted their willingness to fight his forces anywhere in An Najaf. Bold talk, considering the 101st Airborne had just completed sending Saddam's loyalist cadres to the great beyond. I asked one of the Special Forces soldiers how he knew these guys were not fighting for Saddam the day before. "Some of them probably were," he replied. "But they have had a conversion...
Saddam owns a poor record for generalship, and U.S. officials expected him to lop off the south as lost in the war's first hours. Instead Iraq's newly titled Staff Field Marshal Saddam played to his limited strengths by deploying highly motivated loyalist paramilitaries to the towns and cities where they could help him keep his grip on power. Saddam carefully chose forces that could handle double duty, tying down coalition troops with a stubborn stream of skirmishes while compelling local populations to stay loyal...
Already accused of a series of arson and cattle-killing incidents, the Mau Mau's dramatic daylight assassination of a prominent British loyalist from their own tribe stunned the colonial government into calling a state of emergency that lasted nearly eight years. British troops were brought in. More than 100,000 Africans were put into detention camps...