Word: guerrillas
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With a roar and a rolling shockwave that shattered windows and trembled rooftops across northern Baghdad this morning the grinding guerrilla war entered a new and more lethal phase. Shortly before 11 am local time a bomb in a Coaster minivan outside the Jordanian embassy detonated with horrific force, unleashing a fireball that incinerated a car full of people passing by. Those in front of the building were killed instantly, the clothes wrenched from their bodies and flung in tufts like singed confetti, their flesh torched. More than 50 others inside the compound or in the family homes nearby were...
Paul Bremer, head of the Coalition Provisional Authority, is an extraordinary man, and he is doing everything he can to help Iraq, which is badly in need of a new order. In guerrilla warfare, the most important strategy is to win the people's hearts. We need to advertise why we are in Iraq, get the Iraqi people on our side, let them help us eliminate the bad influences. Air daily TV and radio announcements on Iraq's current situation and what the U.S. is doing to change it. Make clear to the Iraqis the U.S.'s goals and objectives...
...Peace Is Hell Your report "Life Under Fire," about the troops in Iraq, bore sad testimony to the failed postwar campaign [July 14]. While Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld spars with journalists over the precise meaning of guerrilla war, Americans are suffering casualties on a daily basis, and their attempts to help the Iraqi people rebuild a country sputter and stall in the face of a security nightmare. No one in the U.S. government or military can take pride in the postwar situation. Instead of planning to protect Iraqis' most precious resources, we became helpless witnesses to the chaotic looting...
...Paul Bremer, head of the Coalition Provisional Authority, is an extraordinary man, and he is doing everything he can to help Iraq, which is badly in need of a new order. In guerrilla warfare the most important strategy is to win the people's heart. We need to advertise why we are in Iraq. Get the Iraqi people on our side. Let them help us eliminate the bad influences. Make daily TV and radio announcements on Iraq's current situation and what the U.S. is doing to change it. Clarify the U.S.'s goals and objectives to the Iraqis...
...Died. Foday Sankoh, 65, leader of a rebel group in Sierra Leone infamous for its brutality; in Freetown, Sierra Leone. After receiving guerrilla warfare training in Libya with future ally Charles Taylor, Sankoh took command of the Revolutionary United Front, which, from 1991 to 2001, made a trademark of hacking off the limbs of rival fighters and noncombatants before U.N. intervention forced a cease-fire. Sankoh, arrested in 2000, died while waiting to face war crime charges and, according to David Crane, chief prosecutor for the U.N.-sponsored war crimes court for Sierra Leone, was "granted a peaceful end that...