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Source: www.timesonline.co.uk --- 12 days ago
Mr Ahmed, 60, who goes by the name Abu Hiba, used to be a football coach and sports club manager. Now he is in charge of 51 Militiamen in the Diyala river valley – a detachment of the Sons of Iraq, the Sunni militia set up and paid for by the US military to kill or capture al-Qaeda militants. ... Source: www.dvorak.org --- 17 days ago
From 1994 - Donahue interviews Militiamen who seemed to have viewed a glimpse of the future ... Source: www.iraqslogger.com --- 40 days ago
Mahdi Army Militiamen in their working-class eastern Baghdad strongholds are probing the reaction of Iraqis to politically provocative statements, according to sources in the capital. ... Source: www.dailystar.com.lb --- 21 days ago
A dozen policemen and two militants were killed in clashes in western Afghanistan, a district governor said Sunday. The policemen, responsible for the security of a dam being reconstructed by Indian engineers, were on patrol when they came under attack from dozens of rebels in Herat Province Saturday, he said. ... Source: www.topix.com --- 24 days ago
Activists of the 'European Belarus' civil campaign Stsyapan Lauretski and Vadzim Sakolin were arrested for posting 'Boycott!' stickers were arrested in the Savetski district of Minsk at night 18 September. ...
Source: news.bbc.co.uk --- 11 days ago
Armed Militiamen disrupted filming as a BBC crew headed for the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia. ... Source: www.iht.com --- 10 days ago
U.N. helicopter gunships fired rockets and machine guns Thursday at Militiamen who attacked them as they patrolled the skies over eastern Congo's troubled Ituri province, the United Nations said. ... Source: www.latimes.com --- 11 days ago
The transition is the first step toward integrating 100,000 Militiamen into public life, which the Shiite-led government hopes will ease sectarian tensions. The Shiite-led Iraqi government Wednesday took command of 54,000 Sunni fighters here in the capital in a U.S.-backed effort to ease sectarian mistrust and offer Sunnis a stronger stake in the country's future. ...
Source: www.cbsnews.com --- 11 days ago
The Nation: Attacks by the Iraqi government and government-allied Militiamen against Awakening leaders and rank-and-file members are likely to spark a new Sunni resistance movement. ... Source: www.iol.co.za --- 9 days ago
UN helicopter gunships fired rockets and machine guns at Militiamen who attacked them, the United Nations said. ... Source: www.freerepublic.com --- 5 hours ago
British combat forces are no longer needed to maintain security in southern Iraq and should leave the country, Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi Prime Minister, has told The Times of London. In an exclusive interview in Baghdad, al-Maliki also criticised a secret deal made last year by Britain with the al-Mahdi Army, Iraqs largest Shia militia. He said that Basra had been left at the mercy of Militiamen who cut the throats of women and children after the British withdrawal from the city. The Iraqi leader emphasized, however, that the page had been turned and he looked forward to a friendly,... ... Source: dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com --- 4 days ago
Since John McCain brought up Somalia and Lebanon as examples of where he has shown good judgment on the use of American troops in foreign conflicts, it's important to see exactly how his judgment paid off. Let's look at Lebanon. In 1983-84, the United States posted around 2,500 Marines in Lebanon to separate warring factions after Israel's 1982 invasion and subsequent withdrawal. It was a mess. More than 240 U.S. servicemen were killed when a suicide bomber blew up their barracks. John McCain stated last night that he opposed the Lebanon deployment and urged the Reagan administration to withdraw. This was exactly -- exactly -- the time when Hezbollah was forming in Lebanon. The U.S. withdrawal helped lead to absolute chaos in Lebanon and served as a major victory cry for Shiite Militiamen, including Hezbollah, to claim that they had defeated a superpower. Using John McCain's 2008 logic on the hazards of withdrawing before "victory" is achieved in Iraq, the John McCain position of 1983-84 was dead wrong. Let's look at Somalia. Using 2008 John McCain's logic, once you're in a fight, you should stay in it to win. Otherwise, you let your enemy declare victory. But take a look at the judgment exercised by John McCain in 1993 when he urged President Clinton to withdraw from Somalia and cut our losses. If he's citing these positions to bolster his supposedly sound judgment, his logic is way, way off. Given McCain's own record, he's got n ... Source: www.upi.com --- 18 days ago
BAGHDAD, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- At least 35 were killed when Iraqi insurgents ambushed police and Militiamen searching for weapons north of Baghdad, officials said Thursday. ...
Source: www.charlotteobserver.com --- 10 days ago
Patrols by European Union monitors may help bring a sense of returning normalcy to the Russian-occupied swaths of Georgia, but they're coming too late for Zviad Artvadze's peace of mind. His memory is seared by the terrible days in August when ethnic Ossetian Militiamen seized him and two Georgian friends and dragged them to the capital of the secessionist South Ossetia region, where he says they were offered up to a bloodthirsty mob. Artvadze lived to return to his devastated village, thanks to a kind man who hid him in a basement, but he hasn't seen one of his friends since. "The main thing we've learned from this is that the only people we can count on are ourselves," said Artvadze, sipping homemade Georgian spirits at a table in the basement of his home. The Kremlin has said its troops will fully withdraw by Oct. 10 from a roughly 5-mile-wide buffer zone around the edges of South Ossetia, the Moscow-supported breakaway region that was at the heart of August war between Russia and Georgia. The memories will stay on for decades. In villages in the zone, like Tirznisi, many people hope the arrival of EU monitors this week will bring some stability. But for others, including Artvadze, the monitors are too little, too late. Burned houses throughout the area testify to the havoc wreaked when South Ossetian militias swept through after the Russian army routed Georgian troops in the brief but bloody war. "It's not a buffer zone, it's ... Source: www.myrtlebeachonline.com --- 10 days ago
Suicide bombers struck two Shiite mosques in Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 24 people and wounding dozens during celebrations marking the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. To the north, suspected Shiite Militiamen gunned down six members of a Sunni family, including women and children, police reported. Those attacks occurred four days after a series of explosions killed 32 people and wounded nearly 100 in Shiite areas of Baghdad, raising fears that al-Qaida in Iraq is trying to provoke Sunni-Shiite reprisal killings now that the last of the American "surge" troops have left the country. ... Source: www.earthtimes.org --- 11 days ago
Manila - Thirty soldiers and eight pro-government Militiamen were killed in nearly two months of clashes with Muslim secessionist rebels in the southern Philippines, a military spokesman said Wednesday. Lieutenant Colonel Ernesto Torres said 146 more... ... Find more results for Militiamen on RSSMicro.com |
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AFP - The International Criminal Court ruled Friday there were sufficient grounds to try two Militiamen accused of seeking to wipe out an entire village in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2003. ...
AFP - Iraq's Shiite-led government will assume responsibility for paying 54,000 mainly Sunni Militiamen in Baghdad starting next week, in an important test of its commitment to reconciliation, a top general said Monday. ...
In February 2007, Times staff writer Said Rifai wrote about what it was like to have his family's home "housejacked." At the time, Baghdad's neighborhoods were awash in sectarian bloodshed, and his west Baghdad district of Adel was in the hands of Sunni Muslim insurgents and gunmen. Since then, security has improved in most of the country, and Iraq's government is urging people to return to homes they fled to escape the war. But that's not as easy as it sounds. Some people have found their houses still occupied by strangers, who say they have been driven out of their own homes and have nowhere to go. Others are returning to discover their homes in shambles after being occupied by insurgents, Militiamen and squatters and caught in gun battles. The Iraqi government has vowed to impose an orderly system of returns and in some areas at least has warned that if people don't leave homes they have occupied illegally by Sept. 2, they will be evicted. In Rifai's neighborhood, the Iraqi military has begun overseeing the handover process, and Rifai was one Adel resident who decided it was time to get his house back. Read about his experience here. There are wildly varying accounts of how many people have gone home to places they had fled. The government says the number is in the tens of thousands and includes Iraqis returning from abroad. Recently, Prime Minister Nouri Maliki began making his jet available for weekly flights of Iraqis comin ...
clipped by: merrie clipper's remarks: Russia makes some good equipment, such as air-defence systems. The infusion of money helps it exercise its atrophied military muscles. A growing proportion of soldiers are volunteers (known as kontraktniki), who are more disciplined than much-abused conscripts. The slow move to a smaller, all-professional army in place of the million-strong, largely conscript force is made more urgent by Russia’s demographic decline. The forces that invaded Georgia were largely made up of professionals. Despite problems in keeping them supplied, they were for the most part better behaved than the South Ossetian Militiamen who looted and destroyed Georgian villages. The Russian army seems to have fought better in Georgia than it did in either of the post-Soviet wars in Chechnya, the now-subdued breakaway province across the border from Georgia. Indeed, the forces sent into Georgia included the Vostok battalion, made up of pro-Kremlin Chechens. .....continued Clip Source: www.economist.com A more aggressive Russian army is still no match for NATO, but is strong enough to scare some neighbours The Russians lost their most senior commander in the field because, by their own accounts, they did not know where Georgian units were. Russian forces lacked surveillance drones and night-vision equipment. Radios worked poorly, and commanders resorted to using mobile phones. Troops barely co-ordinated with the air force, which l ...