Word: militiaization
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...which official sources allege was founded and led by the son of opposition leader Nik Aziz, had established branches in all nine states in peninsular Malaysia. KMM members were told that the group was conducting militia-style training to protect Nik Aziz's fundamentalist Islamic Party of Malaysia in the event of a government crackdown. But top KMM leaders were actively planning the violent overthrow of the country's government in favor of an Islamic regime, police...
...Before September 11, Afghanistan was a failed state run by a militia (the Taliban) and exploited by an international terror consortium. But the effect of the U.S.-aided victory over the Taliban in large parts of of the country has been more or less a reordering of the power balance among the various warlords (and a redistribution among them of most of the Taliban's troops). In order to make Afghanistan a functioning state, the feuding warlord armies will have to be either disarmed, or else incorporated into a disciplined national army - a Herculean challenge that may require tens...
Then the serious business of forgetting began. For decades Oklahoma history books made no mention of the riot. Police and state-militia documents disappeared. Tulsa went back to being a city so segregated that for years it used paychecks of different colors for its white and black teachers. In the 1990s a few determined Tulsans, both black and white, succeeded in creating a state-appointed "truth commission." Hirsch, a onetime reporter for the New York Times who interviewed more than 100 people for this book, tells that part of the story with quiet dispassion...
...That's FARC doctrine too. Emerging from its jungle and mountain hideouts, the guerrillas have been ambushing troops and blowing up so many electricity pylons that some provinces are rationing electricity. Sabotage could hit Bogota itself, where the FARC has its urban "militia" in the slums at the capital's southern end. In Washington, the Colombian ambassador is lobbying for the U.S. to drop the Plan Colombia restriction that limits U.S. aid strictly to the drug-war campaign. The Colombians want U.S. training for a new mobile battalion that would protect the country's infrastructure...
...most of the 13 crew members asleep. The Israelis say the crew told them the weapons were loaded onto the Karine A from boats off the Iranian coast in an operation headed by Lebanese Hajj Bassem, an assistant to the notorious terrorist Imad Mughniyah. A leader of the Lebanese militia Hizballah, Mughniyah has close ties to Iran and is blamed by the Americans for the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut. Israeli intelligence tells TIME the captured captain of the ship, Omar Akawi, a maritime adviser to the Palestinian Transportation Ministry, identified a photo of Bassem...