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...night of April 5, during a festival when the Chinese traditionally visit their ancestors' graves to pay respects, a climactic event occurred. As huge crowds thronged Peking's Tiananmen Square to honor Chou with flowers, wreaths and poems, supporters of Jiang Qing sent in police and militia to disperse the mourners. ''Thousands were killed,'' writes Cheng, ''and tens of thousands wounded. Those found with poems were condemned as counterrevolutionaries and shot without trial. It took the cleaners of Peking two days to hose away the blood and remove everything including the corpses.'' In September 1976, Mao Tse-tung died...
...they get the massive amounts of weapons, some quite sophisticated, that they used against the Iraqi military and American air power? One of the group's former neighbors in Najaf used to be the Al Quds Army - a militia Saddam had organized supposedly to liberate Jerusalem from the Israelis. In the aftermath of the American invasion of 2003 the al Quds Army abandoned its base. In a scene repeated across Iraq in 2003, that Iraqi military installation was looted by the Army of Heaven, which helped itself to Kalashnikov rifles, grenade launchers and surface-to-air missiles. During the battle...
...July 1982, after a Christian Lebanese militia kidnapped the Iranian charge d'affaires in Beirut, the IRGC set in motion a campaign of retaliatory kidnappings, hijackings and assassinations against the U.S. and the West. The Iranian charge was a senior IRGC officer, and the IRGC had no intention of letting his kidnapping go unanswered. The IRGC campaign lasted for more than 10 years and dragged the U.S. into Iran-contra and the arms-for-hostages deal that nearly brought down the Reagan Administration...
Perot instilled a version of military-influenced behavior at his Dallas EDS headquarters that prevails to this day. Says a Wall Street analyst: "Perot used to run the company like it was his own private militia." But Perot also fostered a spirit of no-frills egalitarianism that inspired high standards and fierce loyalty from his workers. Executive parking spaces and other perks were banned; Perot and the managers ate in the EDS cafeteria. Perot has described the EDS operation as a place where "people are treated as full partners." But he has also said, "I'm used to being able...
...militia that's carrying out violence against civilians, I want to get after it," Taylor says. But there's a more personal concern, which Taylor's men share. The U.S. military believes many of the improvised explosive devices targeting American troops in Baghdad are built and planted by Shi'ite militia. "All of us feel that loss personally and would like to prevent that from happening again," says the U.S. commander...