Word: militiaization
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...runway at London's Stansted airport for a second day, Tuesday, as British authorities continued to negotiate with the terrorists who have released eight hostages over the past day. The hijackers have demanded the release of a key Afghan opposition leader from a Taliban prison, and the ruling militia - and hosts of Osama bin Laden - appeared oblivious to irony as they denounced terrorism and steadfastly refused to negotiate. Taliban civil aviation minister Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor even called Monday for British forces to storm the plane. But in the Christmastime Indian Airlines hijacking, the Taliban had insisted that the Indian authorities...
...much who wanted him dead as who didn't. The paramilitary leader known as Arkan, gunned down along with two others Saturday in the lobby of the Belgrade Intercontinental hotel, had a long and brutal criminal history that included time as the leader of the infamous Tiger militia that terrorized civilians in Bosnia and Croatia. So the questions begin: Was the attack some bit of gangland retribution from one of Arkan's many shady associates? Or was the hit ordered by someone in Slobodan Milosevic's government who didn't want Arkan testifying before the U.N. War Crimes Tribunal...
...that purport to bind people together have also created a new information class imposed on the others. Not everyone has a computer, so there is that class of outsiders. Even among the insiders, people seek virtual localities where they find their own kind--chess players chat with chess players, militia members with militia members. Since communication is the soul of democracy, the Internet should have become the great equalizer, but most people are in touch with their own, home alone...
...passengers aboard the hijacked Indian Airlines plane in Afghanistan had better cancel their New Year's plans. That assessment after the country's ruling Taliban militia on Thursday eliminated what may have been India's strongest negotiating tool - the threat of force. The Taliban has also warned that if the Indian government and the hijackers haven't managed to negotiate an end to the dispute by Saturday, the plane will be forced to leave Afghanistan. "The Taliban's ruling council has decreed that no foreign military personnel will be allowed onto Afghan soil, and that rules out a commando raid...
...crowd our upperclassmen into twelve Houses when we could add a thirteenth randomized option to the freshman housing lottery and draft a diverse multicultural militia?" his platform reads...