Word: militiaization
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...killed three people. Hamas leaders threaten civil war unless the Palestinian Authority backs off. Civil war is unlikely, as is the prospect of Hamas disarming before January elections, as the U.S. urges and Israel insists. The new model for Hamas is the Lebanese group Hizballah, which maintains a large militia while also sitting in the country's government...
...many of which had been marked NO INTELLIGENCE VALUE, the officers found information that they now say could have helped the U.S. stop the insurgency's spread. Among the papers were detailed civil-defense plans for cities like Fallujah, Samarra and Ramadi and rosters of leaders and local Baathist militia who would later prove to be the backbone of the insurgency in those cities...
...next few weeks, the question of ownership of the evacuated land will become potentially quite violent. Ordinary Palestinians claim some of the land was originally their farmland and they want it back; some of them have secured the backing of local militia gangs to enforce their claim. Hamas and other factions, including some from Abbas's own Fatah party, claim a portion of the land as recompense for having - as they see it - chased the Israelis out of Gaza with their long campaign of violence. Abbas has signed a government decree that the land reverts to the Palestinian government...
...against it. That's mainly because in the 11-year struggle to get the IRA to turn a ceasefire into permanent peace, they believe the IRA?s gunmen have won too many concessions. Their most recent cause for anger was a British government decision to disband a mainly-Protestant militia. The upsurge of violence may also be a simple resistance to sharing power with nationalists - certainly the Orangemen who sparked this bout of rioting aren't as interested in talking to Catholics as they are in marching past their houses. And their leaders have refused to condemn the violence that...
...vigilantes patrol the streets, questioning strangers. Because Shi'ites are in the majority in Washash, the Sunnis tend to suffer more. Twenty-five Sunni men disappeared into police custody on Aug. 12, according to human-rights activists, who say the security forces are heavily infiltrated by the Shi'ite militia. No record exists of the arrests...