Word: guerrillas
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...cabinet. The resignation was seen as a severe blow to Arafat, who must now submit to the council names for a new cabinet by Sept. 26. Council member Mohammed Hurrani, though part of Arafat's Fatah movement, called the resignation "a great victory." NEPAL Maoist Mayhem Nepal's guerrilla war intensified as Maoist rebels killed 58 policemen and soldiers in the town of Sandikharka, 295 km west of the capital Katmandu. More than 4,000 rebels overran the remote town, where 200 soldiers were garrisoned. Less than 24 hours earlier Maoists killed 49 policemen in Bhiman in southeast Nepal. CHINA...
...Laden and his followers in the past year has finally granted them the stature they crave. And their failure was by no means a given. Not so long ago, the jihadists appeared to be moving from one success to another: first the Iranian revolution in 1979, then the successful guerrilla war that forced the Soviet army from Afghanistan in 1989. But in Saudi Arabia following the Gulf War, for example, a rupture appeared between moderate Islamists--those of the pious middle classes imbued with conservatism--and the more radical movements that view the Wahhabi kingdom as a U.S. protectorate that...
...North Korea's founder Kim Il Sung drew much of his legitimacy from his role in the guerrilla struggle against Japanese colonial rule, so these are the kinds of stories North Koreans grow up with. They help to explain why Pyongyang will demand billions in reparations as part of any normalization of relations with Japan?and why Koizumi is likely to exit North Korea with little to show for the visit unless he signals Tokyo's willingness...
...Qadir, had been assassinated there in July - prompting U.S. personnel to take over the president's security. The mounting campaign of bombings and ambushes of government and U.S. targets over the summer underscore not only the fragility of the U.S.-backed Karzai regime, but also a resurgent anti-American guerrilla campaign by forces including, but not confined to the Taliban and al-Qaeda...
...attacks follow public statements by elements close to al-Qaeda and the Taliban promising a new guerrilla campaign against the U.S. and the Karzai government. Earlier this week, the notorious Pashtun warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar declared a 'jihad' for the ouster of foreign forces from Afghanistan. With Karzai's authority limited to the capital, much of the countryside in the hands of fickle warlords and many Pashtuns suspicious of the disproportionate dominance of ethnic Tajiks in his government, the remnants of the Taliban may be finding fertile ground for a resurgence. Beside the bomb blasts and assassination attempts in the capital...