Word: militiaization
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...setting up missions. MIDDLE EAST Courtroom Rage Scuffles broke out in court between the families of Israeli victims of terrorist attacks and Palestinian spectators at the trial of Marwan Barghouti. Israel accuses Barghouti, head of Yas-ser Arafat's Fatah faction in the West Bank, of leading a militia that allegedly murdered 26 Israelis. A woman whose daughter was killed by Palestinians said Barghouti was a vampire who took "the blood of Jewish children." Before being led away he shouted: "We will be victorious over the occupation." Meanwhile, British leader Tony Blair emphasized the need to restart the Middle East...
...wouldn't have dared launch its long-distance strikes against Serbia if Belgrade had possessed "the ability to take the war into the enemy's territory"?as China can do with missiles that can hit U.S. bases in Japan. And in Somalia, where a warlord's ragtag militia killed 18 soldiers in 1993, "The American people immediately had a strong response, forcing the U.S. Army to withdraw," the authors observe...
...line with the new law. Not only does Papon's release raise questions about France's willingness to confront accusations of recurrent anti-Semitism, it also suggests inequity in the justice system. Klaus Barbie, Germany's wartime head of the SS in Lyon, and pro-Nazi French militia leader Paul Touvier were both allowed to die of cancer in prison during the 1990s. But neither of those men had friends in the French power élite, nor did they have the March 2002 law that Papon's stable of lawyers could exploit. Emboldened by last week's ruling, his legal...
...guns for training the new army. Afghanistan's Ministry of Defense has offered some help but not nearly enough. Minister of Defense Mohammed Qasim Fahim, of all people, is not keen on this national army project. One of the country's many warlords, he already commands his own militia of 18,000 men and is not that interested in creating a rival force...
...elements, points to a dangerous link between Saddam and al Qaeda. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld has suggested that leaders of Bin Laden's group may be hiding out in Iraq. But other officials specified that intelligence had found that "second-tier" al-Qaeda leaders had joined up with an Islamist militia in the Kurdish-controlled north of Iraq, beyond Baghdad's direct control - although possibly under its influence...