Word: guerrillas
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Fighting a guerrilla...
...Kerrey opines, in the Times story, that the civilians of the village his men attacked were, in all probability, Vietcong supporters. And a local woman interviewed for the story makes no bones about the fact that her husband was a guerrilla. Because the Vietcong were not an invading force from the north; they were an indigenous guerrilla army that survived, prospered and the ultimately prevailed because of the support they received not only from their compatriots and commanders in the North or from Moscow and Beijing, but, more important, from within the civilian population of the south...
...Last year, Washington sought to deal with that problem by funneling more than $1 billion into "Plan Colombia," a government effort to target the narcotic trade in areas under guerrilla control. According to the U.N. Drug Control Project, the early effects of Plan Colombia have already raised prices for coca in the region, and - wouldn't you know it - there are already signs of new cultivation under way in Peru. Of course, the U.S. is ready for that, having trained Peruvian navy personnel at a secret base in the Amazon to go after jungle farmers and intercept boats bound...
...which has several hundred full-time soldiers and perhaps 2,000-3,000 firearms, is small and vulnerable. "Obviously we can't face TNI (the army) in a situation of total war," says Tengku Darwesh, one of GAM's 17 local commanders. "As in any guerrilla conflict, we have to choose our time and place to fight." The overwhelming bulk of the movement in Aceh is led by Abdullah Syafi, a 45-year-old graduate of a Banda Aceh school of Islamic jurisprudence. Syafi recognizes the leadership-in-exile of aged GAM-founder di Tiro and his deputies. But there...
...that worry Israel most. At least two Hezbollah-style roadside bombs went off in the West Bank last week. Palestinian sources believe they were set by activists working directly for the Beirut organization. Hezbollah gained kudos in the Arab world for driving Israel out of southern Lebanon with its guerrilla tactics last year. Now it's making its first major moves into the West Bank and Gaza Strip through old deportees like al-Ghoul who have become power players in the Palestinian underworld because of the expertise in weapons and tactics they acquired from Hezbollah...