Word: militiaization
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...Saddam returned to Baghdad in 1963 and started organizing a militia for the Baath Party, which finally succeeded in grabbing power permanently in 1968. Under the nominal leadership of General Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, the man who held the real control was his relative Saddam Hussein. Keeping things in the family, Saddam married another relative, Sajida Talfah, the daughter of the officer who had raised...
...provoked when Khomeini began calling for the overthrow of Saddam's "blasphemous" regime. He is a Sunni Muslim, though most Iraqis belong to the rival Shi'ite branch, as did Khomeini. Saddam responded by invading, confident that his powerful, Soviet-equipped army could easily smash the Ayatullah's ragtag militia, but the Iranians fought back. When the going got especially rough, Saddam turned to poison gas, a horror weapon outlawed after World...
...Khiam prison in southern Lebanon, 304 men and women are held in such cells by the South Lebanon Army, the Israeli-sponsored 2,500-man militia that rules Israel's self-proclaimed security zone. Most of the prisoners are Lebanese Shi'ites. Many are members of Hizballah, caught while attempting to attack SLA positions and patrols or Israeli border settlements. Some were arrested by the SLA security apparatus for interrogation. None have ever been charged or tried. Some will be released if their interrogators decide they are innocent. But for most, the only chance to get out will come when...
...decade seem to have aggravated racial tensions rather than creating, as Jesse Jackson hoped, a "rainbow coalition" of poor and disaffected citizens of all colors. New York City has recently lurched from scholarly disputes about race to racial showdowns, a Milwaukee alderman has threatened to form a Black Panther militia if the city does not improve the conditions of blacks, and campuses across the country are so infected with intolerance that educators have organized mandatory "sensitivity training" sessions. In this climate it is hard to imagine that a sense of class solidarity would emerge for the insurgency that Phillips envisions...
...first, all McGee got for his efforts were calls for his resignation and threats to have him arrested. A group on the predominantly white South Side announced that it would form its own militia to protect the city from McGee's group. Other whites distributed racist literature in local factories. McGee's proposal to extend a street named for King into white areas seems doomed. He has also lost a fight in the council to transfer control of a jobs program from the county to the city. "We've got two worlds here," he said dejectedly after that defeat...