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For example, Qassem Suleimani, the
commander
of the Quds Force, a branch of the IRGC, endorsed Qalibaf, who he hoped would receive Khamenei’s full support.
Amir Ali Hajizadeh,
commander
of the Guard’s Aerospace Division, said that, in the event of war, “NATO’s missile-defense installations will be attacked by Iran.”
The Vichy state’s brand of authoritarian traditionalism lionized family and fatherland, with Pétain, a former military commander, serving as a kind of military king, exalted on the tribune.
Last November, Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the
commander
of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), confirmed that AQIM seized the opportunity to secure some of this arsenal when the revolution started.
The IRGC’s commander, General Mohammad Ali Jafari, has publicly expressed his hostility to Rouhani’s administration, while General Hassan Firouzabadi, Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, has countered by expressing his support for the president.
Her proposals for constitutional reform would make Ukraine a pure parliamentary republic, while retaining a president as head of state and
commander
in chief of the armed forces.
Al Watan (The Homeland) is led by former LIFG and Tripoli Military Council
commander
Abd al-Hakim Belhaj.
The other, Al Umma al-Wasat (The Central Nation), is led by Sami al-Saadi, the group’s former chief ideologist, and Abd al-Wahad Qaid, an LIFG military
commander
and the brother of the deceased Al Qaeda
commander
Hasan Qaid (Abu Yahya al-Libi).
The week the Senate report came out, I was reading Anand Gopal’s new book No Good Men Among the Living, which tells contemporary Afghanistan’s story through the eyes of a supporter of former President Hamid Karzai, a Taliban commander, and a Kabul-born housewife who spent years in purdah in Taliban country.
In the fall of 2001, for example, Georgian security officials provided transportation for the Chechen field
commander
Ruslan Gelaev from the Pankisi Gorge to Abkhazia.
The Ingenious GeneralWASHINGTON, DC – Had Ariel Sharon never entered politics, he would still be known around the world as a military
commander
and tactician.
The result is what General Sir Rupert Smith, the former British
commander
in Northern Ireland and the Balkans, calls “war among the people.”
At the ASEAN summit’s conclusion, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, a former Khmer Rouge
commander
who has ruled his country with an iron fist for three decades, closed the meeting by proclaiming that all of the leaders had agreed not to “internationalize” sovereignty disputes over islands in the South China Sea.
As one US official put it, China seems to be trying to “create facts on the ground” – what Admiral Harry Harris, the US
commander
in the Pacific, calls a new “great wall of sand.”
On April 9, when Peruvians elect a new President, they will choose between Ollanta Humala Tasso, a nationalist former army
commander
who proposes radical economic and social change, and Lourdes Flores Nano, who would maintain the country’s current neo-liberal policies.
General John Allen, a former US
commander
in Afghanistan and now President Barack Obama’s special envoy to the international coalition fighting the Islamic State, argues that we cannot know how many Americans have not been kidnapped because the group knows that it will not receive ransoms for them.
The International Criminal Court in The Hague, which is investigating the crimes in eastern Congo, has only this week indicted the first Congolese militia
commander
for gender-based crimes.
EUPOL started poorly, losing its first commander, and faces serious problems recruiting high-caliber staff.
When Europeans first made contact with the Sentinelese, the British naval
commander
Maurice Vidal Portman described them in 1899 as “painfully timid.”
The
commander
of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group, General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (better known as Hemeti), even claimed that he had refused an order by Bashir to open fire on protesters.
The Post-Suleimani View from IranSTANFORD – The assassination by the United States of Qassem Suleimani, the
commander
of Iran’s Quds Force, was certainly a major escalation in the two countries’ long-running conflict.
There’s now a real question as to whether the impeachment clause, the Constitution’s failsafe against a
commander
in chief who abuses his power, can work under a strong and belligerent president.
Even cooperation among European intelligence services is a sham: journalists knew who murdered a former Chechen rebel
commander
in Berlin’s Tiergarten park in August before Germany’s politicians did.
A year after the withdrawal, a University of Maryland poll shows, Zarif’s popularity was far surpassed by that of General Qassem Suleimani, the hardline Revolutionary Guard
commander
who was just assassinated in Baghdad on Trump’s order.
Insofar as the fight against the pandemic is akin to a wartime mobilization, the US has been stuck with a
commander
who looks out only for himself, while endangering everyone else by rejecting science and expertise.
We learned after the fact that Pompeo had been pressing Trump for some time to order the assassination of Qassem Suleimani, the
commander
of Iran’s Quds Force, which the US has designated a foreign terrorist organization.
And yet, less than a year after that speech, Trump ordered the assassination of Iran’s most powerful military commander, General Qassem Suleimani, bringing the United States to the precipice of yet another war.
The
commander
of this fifth column is Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
As the top US military
commander
in Afghanistan admitted in 2017, “It is very difficult to succeed on the battlefield when your enemy enjoys external support and safe haven.”
According to the wartime military commander, Sarath Fonseka, Gotabaya ordered the summary execution of rebel leaders as they surrendered.
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