Word: rebel
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...cruel guerrilla leader who helped hold three U.S. military contractors hostage for more than five years was suddenly prostrate on the floor of the helicopter. Colombian Army commandos, disguised as humanitarian aid workers in a sting operation to rescue the prisoners, were pummeling the rebel commandante into submission. One of the hostages on board, Keith Stansell, joined in on the action. The chiseled former U.S. Marine and self-described southern redneck reared back and socked his long-time nemesis in the eye. Then, embracing his now liberated American colleagues, Marc Gonsalves and Tom Howes, Stansell said: "Just one blow...
...Perhaps more revealing is the mens' first-hand description of the disintegration of the FARC, a 45-year-old Marxist rebel group that funds its war with the profits from drug trafficking and kidnapping. When the Americans were captured, the FARC was at its peak with about 18,000 members. Rations included beef and vegetables, rebel commandantes showed off their chrome-plated pistols and zipped around guerrilla territory in SUVs while guards led their prisoners along jungle trails singing songs with little fear of being detected. Many of the foot soldiers were illiterate teenagers who, in between battles, munched...
...crisis continued into Thursday afternoon, Hasina addressed the nation, exhorting the soldiers to stand down. "Lay down your guns immediately and go back to barracks," she said. "Do not force me to take tough actions or push my patience beyond tolerable limits." Government officials confirmed that the rebel soldiers have begun surrendering their arms. About 4,000 guards were believed to be at the headquarters, and it was not immediately clear how many had surrendered. Some 42,000 guards are posted at 64 Bangladesh Rifles camps throughout the country...
...guerrilla commander Simón Trinidad was extradited and convicted of conspiracy to kidnap three U.S. military contractors, even though he was only loosely linked to the crime. But Colombia's Supreme Court this month blocked President Uribe's order to extradite Alexander Farfán, the cruel rebel prison warden who is accused by those same American hostages of putting chains around their necks and threatening to execute them. Farfán faces federal charges in the U.S. and Colombia for hostage-taking...
...movie theaters after that, taping together remnants of filmstrips to make his own films, which he would then show to his friends in tiny makeshift movie halls fashioned from cardboard. When the Soviet Union invaded in 1979, he joined the mujahedin guerrillas, eventually forming the documentary-film unit for rebel commander Ahmed Shah Massoud. (Massoud, also a film buff, introduced Barmak to Casablanca, Spartacus and Platoon...