Word: militia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week, after an 8 1/2-month undercover probe, federal prosecutors announced who they thought that someone was: a little-known Phoenix-based paramilitary group by the name of the Viper Militia. Last Monday ATF agents arrested 10 men and two women alleged to be members of the group. In a series of simultaneous raids, agents found an arsenal that included two machine guns, six rifles and 56 boxes stuffed with 11,463 rounds of ammunition, as well as hundreds of pounds of chemicals similar to those used in the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. Agents also discovered...
...Hutu threat intensifies, indigenous tribes have been fighting back. North of Goma a militia calling itself the Bangalima, after a famous tribe of warriors from the central Zairian rain forest, recently launched a series of attacks on Zairian army posts and local Hutu. Avid fetishists, often fighting naked and using charms that they believe turn enemy bullets into water, the Bangalima fighters have sworn to drive all Hutu from Zaire. A letter received last month by the local representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees threatened a "bloodbath" in the refugee camps if all 750,000 Hutu were...
...Zairian military recently launched an operation to quell what they are calling a rebel uprising by indigenous militia. Long feared for their corrupt and brutal ways, the unpaid combat troops have scored a few successes against the rebels but in the process have spread terror throughout North Kivu. At the Lake Edward fishing village of Vitshumbi, 62 miles north of Goma, paracommandos stormed in behind a barrage of mortar fire last month, killing 15 Bangalima combatants and, according to local human-rights workers, herding 34 suspected collaborators into local churches and gunning them down. A mother of five reported being...
...Block this white-supremacist home page: http://www.stormfront.org And this list of militia-movement Websites: http://www.yahoo.com/Society--and--Culture/Alternative/ Militia--Movement...
This Esmeralda is less a medieval Gypsy than a willful California teen with Joan of Arc aspirations; imagine a Loire Valley Girl, a Militia Silverstone. Hurling invective at Frollo, flirting with the hunky, John Smith-like Captain Phoebus (Kevin Kline) and singing the film's most poignant solo, about a Gypsy holocaust ("God help the outcasts, or nobody will"), she emerges as the latest in Disney's line of feminist freedom fighters--a Pocahontas with Romany eyes...