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...Congo (DRC), a country the size of Western Europe, is a leader in the production of conflict, diamonds, and conflict diamonds. Some observers have compared it to the Wild West. This land is saturated with natural resources, including diamonds, and the mines win DRC its share of shady characters. Rebel soldiers and al Qaeda operatives have been spotted around the mines, as well as armies from six African nations, helpfully occupying resource-rich territory. Planes take off from mines regularly on flights paths that are not even covered by radar. Needless to say, no one checks the passengers?...
...Uncle Arbi was a role model for Movsar Barayev, the 25-year-old leader of the Chechen rebels who was killed last week after seizing more than 750 captives in a Moscow theater. Arbi Barayev, leader of the Chechen Islamic Special Units, famously oversaw the capture and beheading of four telecommunications workers--three from Britain, one from New Zealand--in Chechnya in 1998. Movsar also had an aunt in the rebel business. Khava Barayeva is revered by Chechen guerrillas for her suicide car-bomb attack on a Russian base in the family's home village of Alkhan-Yurt...
...Saudi-born guerrilla commander who U.S. officials claim represented Osama bin Laden in Chechnya. In an interview with the BBC, one of Movsar's men denied any link to al-Qaeda. Still, Movsar seemed to embrace that group's concept of martyrdom. At the start of the action, a rebel website quoted Movsar, saying the hostage takers were there "to die, not to survive." A colleague remarked, while Movsar was still in the theater, "These are the happiest days of his life." --By Paul Quinn-Judge/Moscow
Makiya explained that opponents of democratization believe that the process would destabilize the entire Persian Gulf region and that the U.S. would need to rely excessively on rebel groups in Iraq...
...memoir, Wamba wrote about his cross-cultural upbringing as the son of a Congolese rebel leader and a school teacher from Detroit...