Word: rebel
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...toll on Putin's approval rating, which has declined from 75% to 48% over the past three months. An increasingly violent Chechnya won't help his political fortunes. "Putin has manacled himself to a hell-bound train and can't get off," says Salambek Maigov, the official representative of rebel Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov. "He has made himself a hostage to the situation." --By Unmesh Kher. Reported by Yuri Zarakhovich/Moscow
...were arrested after stealing $9 million in drug money they found in the jungle. Military officials became suspicious when the soldiers (who earn about $175 per month) went on shopping sprees, buying new cars and TVs, and showered money on prostitutes. Authorities said the money had belonged to the rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, which acquired it from drug cartels...
...arms to a collection of Afghan guerrillas fighting the Soviets. The arms shipments included Stinger missiles, the shoulder-fired, antiaircraft weapons that were used with deadly accuracy against Soviet helicopters and that are now in circulation among terrorists who have fired such weapons at commercial airliners. Among the rebel recipients of U.S. arms: Osama bin Laden...
...Charged. Ratu Jope Seniloli, Vice President of Fiji; with treason and sedition for his involvement in the May 2000 nationalist coup that toppled the South Pacific nation's democratic government; in Suva, Fiji. George Speight, the rebel leader whose gunmen stormed Fiji's Parliament and held it for 56 days, had appointed Seniloli President of his illegal government. Seniloli is the highest-ranking government official to face charges related to the coup...
...mistake when dealing with a man who appears to have established himself as the de facto ruler of a huge chunk of Baghdad - the Shiite ghetto once known as Saddam City, now renamed Sadr City in honor of Muqtada's uncle, the legendary martyred anti-Saddam rebel cleric Muhammad Bakir al Sadr. Sadr City could be described as the Compton of Iraq, but its 2 million residents make up 8 percent of Iraq's entire population. A substantial domain, then, for a young man who claims to be 30 years old, but whom many of his associates admit is more...