Word: rebellion
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...Roberts). It's even there in the characterization of Eamon de Valera, President of the nascent Irish Republic. He's wonderfully played by Alan Rickman as a deeply devious neurasthenic, but he is seen by Jordan as the kind of political sophisticate who has been betraying simplehearted soldiers of rebellion since Errol Flynn (or maybe Douglas Fairbanks...
...never had connections or education or anything--he spent ten years in jail. Amnesty International and other human rights organizations knew of me and adopted me. But this other man was not released for such a long time. That always happened in Nepal: the main leaders [of a rebellion] were not killed, but innocent people who threw a bomb here or there were. This happened everywhere...
...often asked after a Baghdad trip why these hard-pressed people don't rebel against Saddam. The middle class has fallen the furthest and would seem to be a vast pool of potential discontent. But U.S. agents have attempted to stir them to rebellion with scant success. That the middle class is not in a revolutionary mood is understandable when you pair the severe U.N. economic sanctions with the government's preoccupation with protecting its internal security. Their priority is the struggle for sustenance for themselves and their families, a daily struggle that leaves little room for other than dreaming...
...allies established an enclave where the 4 million Kurds would be protected from Saddam. The Kurds rebelled against Baghdad at the end of the war, hoping the moment was ripe for them to set up an independent country. Iraqi forces were on their way to crushing the rebellion when the Western powers drew a line just south of Erbil and told Saddam not to cross...
...Syria, Turkey, Iran and Iraq meet. The 2,000-year Kurd history has been plagued by feuds and infighting that have left Kurds, the world's largest ethnic group that has been unable to achieve statehood, vulnerable to outside meddling. Throughout this century, the Kurds have unsuccessfully waged rebellions lasting decades against the governments of Turkey, Iraq and Iran but their lack of unity always undermined their purpose. The Iran-Iraq war during the 1980s only made matters worse. During the bloody 8-year conflict, Iraq supported the Iranian Kurds opposed to Ayatollah Khomeini and Iran, in turn, supported...