Militia
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Nonetheless, they have shown great restraint in northern Iraq since Saddam’s fall, contenting themselves with building up their autonomous province both economically and politically – to the point that it is independent in all but name, with a strong and experienced army in the Peshmerga
militia.
In Lebanon over the past two decades, the Iranian-backed political party and
militia
Hezbollah has carved out a state within a state.
And many Americans believe that the US Constitution’s Second Amendment (“A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed”) permits individuals virtually unrestricted access to guns.
When Khatami’s reform program was ineffective, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, an obscure officer of the Basij militia, was elected Mayor of Tehran in 2003 (after just 12% of the city’s voters turned out), and then defeated Rafsanjani in 2005 to become President.
The move not only belied US claims that it does not negotiate with terrorists; it also failed to bring the Taliban
militia
to the negotiating table.
It is no wonder that the Taliban chief, Mullah Muhammad Omar, hailed the release of his five comrades as evidence that his
militia
is “closer to the harbor of victory.”
It is well known, for example, that Basaev's fanatical killers paid off Russian
militia
to enter Budeonovsk in 1995 and kill hospital patients.
To reinforce the image that a US invasion may be imminent, Maduro has mobilized the army and
militia
for war maneuvers.
Militarily, it has nipped in the bud any potential armed
militia
in West Beirut that could hinder its movement beyond the southern suburbs.
Hezbollah has an armed
militia
that is far more effective than Lebanon’s national army, and has openly rejected UN Security Council resolutions asking for its disarmament.
Western and Iranian support for Nouri al-Maliki’s government, which is controlled by Iran’s Basij militia, must be withdrawn, enabling the Iraqi people to determine freely their own destiny.
More recently, Iran has continued to prop up Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and it has maintained its longstanding support for Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia
militia.
More recently, Meles coordinated efforts with Kenya to stage limited strikes against the al-Shabaab militia, which has waged an unrelenting war to turn Somalia into a fundamentalist Islamic theocracy.
Libya and Tunisia are far from settled, as the recent assassination of Tunisia’s leading opposition politician and the presence of unrestrained
militia
in Libyan towns show.
On matters of national sovereignty, the new government must continue to build up the national army and police forces, negotiate with Hezbollah over the integration of its
militia
into the state security structure, and push for regional peace, which would strongly benefit Lebanon.
It fails to distinguish between Hamas, Hezbollah, al Qaeda or the Sunni insurrection and the Mahdi
militia
in Iraq.
Many of these officials are former leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army, a
militia
that led an insurrection against Slobodan Milosevic’s Serbia.
In Macedonia, the conservative Macedonian Slav-run government has for years dragged its feet on implementing the equal-rights provisions of the Ohrid Agreement, reached in 2001 with the leaders of the ethnic Albanian minority to end a violent insurrection by the National Liberation Army, an ethnic Albanian
militia.
If anything, the erosion of IHL now stems as much from decisions made in Washington as from the cruelties of
militia
commanders in West African jungles.
Ayatollah Khamenei, who is also the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, oversees the agencies that will run the election: the Guardian Council and the Ministry of Interior, which supervise the electoral process, and the Basij
militia
and Revolutionary Guard (IRGC), which unofficially control the ballot-boxes and the vote-counting process.
Others, such as Libya’s former ambassador to France, Omar Brebesh, were found dead, apparently tortured by a
militia
that spearheaded the campaign to overthrow Qaddafi.
The Council needs to focus on establishing some degree of rule of law, and on curbing
militia
abuses.
The so-called students are members of the Basij militia, which was ordered to attack the embassy, with the police only pretending to stop them.
But Yar’Adua shrugged off charges of electoral fraud, and in the first days of his presidency, he drew praise, both at home and abroad, for promises to tackle corruption and pursue an agreement with
militia
groups in the oil-rich, violence-plagued Niger Delta region.
Attacks on pipelines have recently intensified ahead of a planned summit meeting between the government and various
militia
leaders, as small groups of militants stage attacks on oil infrastructure in the Delta to establish their relevance and win a potentially lucrative seat at the negotiating table.
Even in Lebanon, where Iran’s proxy, the Shia Hezbollah militia, is the dominant political force, the Saudis view Trump as a possible savior whose emerging anti-Iranian policy could strengthen the Kingdom’s surrogates.
At the end of July, MBS hosted Muqtada al-Sadr, the leader of Iraq’s most powerful Shia militia, for his first visit to Saudi Arabia since 2006.
Ten days later, protesters overran the base of Ansar al-Sharia, the Islamist
militia
suspected of masterminding the attack, as part of a sweep of raids on
militia
compounds throughout the city.
The Iranian- and Syrian-backed Hezbollah
militia
may reinitiate hostilities.
Bureaucratic and security services dominated by the Revolutionary Guards and its militia, the Basij (Mobilization Corps), are now firmly in command.
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