Word: militiaization
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...future. Although U.S. ground troops saw their first publicized combat engagements over the weekend, their objectives are limited - to gather intelligence that may help eventually capture or kill Osama Bin Laden, and to accelerate the collapse of the Taliban regime by signaling to its fighters that the fundamentalist militia is unable to protect its territory from U.S. attack. By the array of forces it has assembled around Afghanistan, it is plain that the U.S. is not planning to launch a full-blown invasion, instead focusing on expanded special operations of the type seen around Kandahar over the weekend. The infantry...
...Israel's reluctance to settle for Arafat imprisoning Zeevi's killers is hardly surprising. The PA has found it increasingly difficult to sustain action against Palestinian militants during the current intifada - local Fatah militia leader Atif Abbayat who was killed last Thursday, for example, had been arrested by the PA only weeks earlier, but was then released after his supporters threatened to resume firing on the Israeli neighborhood of Gilo. The U.S. has repeatedly called on Arafat to take stronger steps to rein in militants...
...Afghanistan following its defeat for fear that if the country is plunged back into civil war it will remain a breeding ground of terrorism. But stabilizing a post-Taliban regime in Kabul may prove to be as perilous, if not more so, than the effort to overthrow the fundamentalist militia. The reason is simply that the enmities that have torn apart Afghanistan run far deeper than the excesses of the Taliban, and the West has little to work with by way of established alternative political forces on the ground...
...militia that dubbed itself the Taliban, Pashtu for Islamic students, emerged in 1994 from the rural southern hinterlands of Afghanistan, under the guidance of the reclusive onetime village preacher Mullah Mohammed Omar. Fed by recruits from conservative religious schools across the border in Pakistan attended by destitute refugees from the 1979-89 war against the Soviet invasion, the Taliban won military and political support from Pakistan. It rose to power by promising peace and order for a country ravaged by corruption and civil war and the prospect of re-establishing traditional majority-Pashtun dominance...
...what led up to the violence that Edgar and his family witnessed first-hand. The two major players in the nations’s civil war are the freely elected government, which is backed by the UN and a host of neighboring West African countries, and a band of militia rebels who, among other things, want to control Sierra Leone’s profitable diamond mines. The rebels call themselves the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) and are responsible for the death and maiming of over 10,000 Sierra Leonians...