Word: rebels
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...Land Rover with three workers from Amnesty International when I hear the crack of gunfire and see rebel soldiers storming from the bushes. They are dressed in camouflage with balaclavas pulled over their faces and guns in their hands. I watch in horror as my colleague is pulled from the seat next to me. I feel hands forcing me out of the car, shoving me onto the ground. The barrel of a pistol digs into the back of my neck. A burlap sack is pulled over my head and tightened by a cord. The world has gone dark...
Because it takes months for a book to go to press, it is entirely coincidence that Junger’s last chapter, the most recent essay, narrates his time last year with Ahmed Shah Massoud, then the leader of Afghanistan’s rebel Northern Alliance. Last year, when Junger spent a month with Massoud in the mountains of the Afghanistan, Massoud was an unknown in the western world—despite orchestrating some of the most brilliant warfare waged in the 1980s and 1990s and holding off first the Soviet Army and then the Taliban regime for years. Many...
Since Sept. 11, big powers have come courting. U.S. officials who have long ignored the United Front are eager to plot cooperation. Russian generals muster Soviet-era equipment familiar to the fighters for immediate shipment. Iranian advisers, who steadily kept the rebel forces alive, promise more money and materiel. Afghan fighters, stalled for years just 30 miles from the capital of Kabul, see their dream of retaking the city within reach...
...Sept. 27 the National Liberation Army formally ceased to exist. The announcement came as nato declared its arms collecting mission to Macedonia a success, with 3,875 weapons handed in to nato troops. Ethnic Macedonian politicians greeted Ahmeti's announcement with some skepticism, believing that many weapons remain in rebel hands. CHECHNYA Talks About Talks In response to a proposal from Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chechens and Russians started talks to end the two-year war in the breakaway republic. Moscow has demanded that the rebels disarm before substantive negotiations begin...
...MACEDONIA Rebel Army Disbands Ali Ahmeti, the leader of Macedonia's rebel ethnic Albanians, announced that as of midnight...