Word: rebels
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...Wednesday's decision by Moscow to set up "filtration points" and detain every Chechen man between the age of 10 and 60 on the basis that he may be a rebel fighter may be a sign that Russia has already lost this war politically. And it is in the conduct of politics, rather than the deployment of air power and artillery, that counterinsurgency wars are won or lost...
...Turkish prison cell. In it, he urged the European Union to look kindly on his jailers' application for membership to the 15-member economic and political community - an unusual action for a man who has spent 15 years fighting a vicious guerrilla war against Turkey. But the Kurdish rebel leader reaped the benefit Wednesday, when Turkey voted to delay his execution - a punishment handed down on grounds of treason - pending a hearing by the European Court of Human Rights. Turkey's signature on the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights requires the delay, and despite the strong domestic...