Commander
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In a recorded conversation with a Metropolitan police commander, Lucy D’Orsi, the queen called Chinese officials “very rude,” and expressed sympathy for D’Orsi’s “bad luck” in having to deal with them.
Joseph F. Dunford, Jr., the US and NATO
commander
in Afghanistan, did apologize for a drone attack that killed a child and seriously wounded two women in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province.
Last week brought news of yet another murder of a women’s rights activist in Pakistan; evidence that the Egyptian military may be deliberately using sexual assault to deter women from demonstrating in Cairo’s Tahrir Square; a horrific report from the New York-based Women’s Media Center about Syrian government forces’ use of sexual violence and gang rape; and a video of a Taliban
commander
brutally executing a woman for adultery as his fellow soldiers and villagers cheered.
The story begins with an abortive coup on the night of September 30, 1965, when junior military officers, claiming to be protecting President Sukarno from a right-wing clique, captured and executed the army
commander
and five other high-ranking generals.
As one Kosovo Liberation Army
commander
warned, “If we kill one KFOR soldier a day, these cowards will leave.”
The key to Afghanistan lies in Islamabad, not in Kabul, which means that US President Barack Obama’s special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, is more important now than the military
commander
in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus.
Looking at the three senators running for president, John McCain has military experience, but as an aviator rather than a
commander.
Indeed, the most perilous phase of Xi’s purge may now be underway, given the recent arrest of the deputy
commander
of the Sichuan Military District – a key post, given the district’s large and restive Tibetan population.
NATO
commander
General Wesley Clark asked if Macedonia would allow pre-positioning of supplies in the event that a ground invasion would be necessary.
Wang Quanyan, a senior officer, was taken by a Muslim
commander
as a concubine.
Army
commander
Ashfaq Kiyani has shown no interest in taking over the state, as his predecessor, General Pervez Musharraf, did.
The new American operational
commander
in Iraq, Lt. General Raymond Odierno, says that the new efforts will be more evenhanded among Sunni and Shiite neighborhoods, and American troops will stay alongside Iraqi troops in areas that have been cleared.
His regime survives only through a ruthless campaign of terror conducted by the army, of which Mugabe is commander-in-chief; the police force, whose
commander
publicly declares political allegiance to Mugabe; the dreaded Central Intelligence Organization, which Mnangagwa headed for many years; and, of late, the ill-trained and brutal youth militia, whose loyalty to the ruling party is unflinching.
Their commander, who spoke with a distinct Liberian accent, called himself Captain Goldteeth.
Indeed, a considerable number of the most prominent figures of the Cold War, in Russia and the US support abolition of nuclear weapons, including former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Paul Nitze, considered by many the author America's Cold War nuclear policy; former NATO
commander
Andrew J. Goodpaster, and Russia’s General Aleksander Lebed.
General Yasar Buyukanit, the top
commander
of the Turkish Armed Forces back then, recently admitted that he himself wrote the April 27 memorandum.
As the US military
commander
in Afghanistan, General John Nicholson, has acknowledged, “It’s very difficult to succeed on the battlefield when your enemy enjoys external support and safe haven.”
The biggest hit that the NTC’s provisional government has taken since its establishment was the assassination of the rebel military
commander
Major General Abdul Fatah Younis.
General John Nicholson, the US military
commander
in Afghanistan, seeking the deployment of several thousand additional American troops, recently warned of the growing “malign influence” of Russia and other powers in the country.
Some claim that the local PLA
commander
initiated the “stand-off,” while others contend that China’s new president, Xi Jinping, was using the transgression to assert his authority over the PLA.
In September, General George Casey, the senior American military
commander
in Iraq, testified to Congress that modern insurgencies last about a decade, and that the Iraqi army had only one battalion capable of fighting without help from American military forces.
Besieged economically at home, where his popularity is at its lowest since his election last year, can he regain credibility, if not support, as supreme
commander
of French forces?
As the supreme
commander
of an army at war, Hollande can now try to reinvent himself.
An Iraqi
commander
recently summed up the challenge: “We don’t have enough intelligence information; we don’t have good air coverage; we are battling very well-trained groups that have good experience in street fights, that are moving fast between cities and villages.”
So, was China’s incursion into Indian territory an error by a local PLA
commander?
General Dallaire, the UN
commander
in Rwanda who appealed for authority to confront the genocidaires , would also now likely be known as a trigger-happy alarmist.
Indeed, some years back, a planned visit to Indian Ladakh by the PLA’s
commander
of the Lanzhou Military Region was canceled on the grounds that Pakistan had protested – implying that Pakistan had a legitimate claim to the area.
An estimated quarter of the Ahrar forces in the north, including their commander, Hashim al-Sheikh, defected to HTS, which al-Sheikh currently commands.
The current Ahrar commander, Ali al-Omar, heads this new coalition.
There seem to be few, if any, fighters in Chechnya who recognize him as commander; his recent attempt to send an emissary to create a fighting unit directly under his command was not successful.
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