Word: militiaization
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...mobs that rampaged unchecked through the streets of Baghdad several times last year or to reprisal killings by Sunni insurgents. The Awadis were lucky: they had fair warning. Adnan still remembers the strong body odor of the six armed men from the Shi'ite Mahdi Army militia who walked into his office at the Health Ministry and demanded that he quit his job and get out of the country. Said the leader of the group: "We are cleaning the government, throwing out Sunni garbage like you." He told Adnan what would happen if he didn't obey. "They would kidnap...
...slapped with an economic blockade by Israel and the international community in early 2006 when Islamic militants belonging to Hamas--which is opposed to Israel's existence--won the Palestinian elections, beating President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah Movement. That victory was reinforced in June when Hamas chased Fatah's armed militia out of Gaza. The Yazegis have thrived by steering clear of the fratricidal politics of the Palestinians. "We're caught between three sides," says Yazegi. "Hamas, Fatah and Israel...
...Outside the immediate spheres of these camps there is anarchy,” said McEachern. “It’s where African Union troops do not have control and women risk their lives collecting firewood because they could be abducted, raped and even killed by Janjaweed militia.” The money also provides alternative energy sources such as solar-powered cookers to reduce the need to search for firewood. The campaign leaves some perplexed: A student attracted by bell ringing and shouting volunteers outside the Science Center yesterday didn’t know if he should actually...
...clear that the men in the video liked guns. But what they claim was a hobby the government has termed a "militia-like" training exercise, because the men were, in some cases, walking or kneeling while shooting. This may be a sign of paramilitary training - or not. "We were going on our knees to get comfortable," says Burim, 16, who was also on the Poconos trip. "The guns are pretty heavy...
...that he did not return from the Annapolis summit empty-handed. Abbas needs all the help he can get from Israel and the U.S. He is locked in a power struggle with the Islamic movement Hamas, which last June seized control of the Gaza strip and chased out Abbas' militia...