Insurgents

VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Afghan insurgents learn to destroy key U.S. armored vehicle'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'The insurgents\' success in attacking the hulking machines, which can cost as much as $1 million each, underscores their ability to counter the advanced hardware that the U.S. military and its allies are deploying in their struggle to gain the upper hand in the war, which entered its ninth year last month. ' ❋ Unknown (2009)

I think Jake objects to your characterization that the government of Iraq is legitimately elected but not to the term insurgents, since legitimacy is not a criteria for insurgency. ❋ Unknown (2006)

PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, John, what we know from a police official up in Samarra is that at 4: 00 a.m. local time clashes broke out between what he call insurgents and the Iraqi national police that were protecting this mosque. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Further inquiry by USAID personnel in August 2009 revealed that Taliban insurgents from the local community had been involved with the arson. ❋ David Isenberg (2010)

Just eight years ago, the country's oil industry was near a standstill because oilfields such as Rubiales, now the country's largest producer, were inaccessible, surrounded by insurgents from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, Latin America's oldest and largest guerrilla group, also known as FARC. ❋ Angel Gonzalez (2010)

If U.S. troops occupying another nation are attacked by local insurgents, is a war of counter-insurgency needed to defend our nation or merely to secure some imperial outpost? ❋ Steven E. Levingston (2010)

But we will not win based on the number of Taliban we kill, but instead on our ability to separate insurgents from the center of gravity, the people. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As a matter of fact, a far better recruiting tool for insurgents is the missteps made by the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan (remember the prison scandals in Baghdad). ❋ Unknown (2010)

Divide the insurgents from the greater pool of potential insurgents: those who can be persuaded to join the insurgency — or, to go a step further, those who can be either persuaded or coerced into not bandwagoning with the counterinsurgent force. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Besides opposing Afghani insurgents, is any other reason that might what a strong military presence in the area? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Far from seeking to govern the local population, the goal of insurgents is simply to demonstrate through sabotage, terror and guerrilla operations that the government is incapable of keeping order. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Mr. Karzai's overtures, formally launched at a June peace conference where he called insurgents "brothers" and "dear Talibs," included asking the United Nations to remove Taliban leaders from the international sanctions black list and ordering the freeing of Taliban suspects from government custody. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Killing insurgents is not the same thing as eliminating an insurgency. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Some of it probably ended up in insurgents 'hands. ❋ Unknown (2007)

That war in was between the forces of the Soviet Union and the various Islamic tribes of Afghanistan, many the same tribes fighting against the U.S. now, who we call insurgents and the Taliban. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In Al Anbar we're arming the Sunnis formerly known as insurgents so they'll help us wipe out Al Qua'eda. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In the second round, everyone attacked a recent release of insurgents from the Abu Ghraib prison that had been meant as a goodwill gesture. ❋ Unknown (2006)

"We're trying to separate the insurgents from the rest of the people," the official said. ❋ Unknown (2006)

the insurgents arent getting [weaker], they will [jsut] make one big blow to the american [troops] and then kick them out of iraq ❋ Vick The Man (2005)

<[AK-47] fire>[Soldier] 1: What the fuck?! Soldier 2: We're under attack! Soldier 1: Fucking [insurgents]... ❋ ICanHazAbortionz? (2009)

"[Let's not] use 'rebel,' that will remind kids too much of Star Wars and they might start thinking that these people have a right to defend their country from foreign invaders. Use 'insurgent,' instead. That way it sounds like they're [terrorists] rather than just people trying to defend their homes." - [Donald Rumsfeld] ❋ Captain Yellowbeard (2004)

The [insurgents] have been at it again today. Back to you [Wolfy] in [Atlanta]! ❋ Piranha (2006)

I need some [insurgents] to test the [penetrating] capability of my new .[44] ❋ Jay Zeus (2005)

Bush: I got it! Let's call them [insurgents]! People won't tell the difference between them and [terrorists]! [Ha ha] ha!!! ❋ Treasonous (2011)

While the USSR was occupying Afghanistan in the 80s, [Soviets] said that rebels were counter-revolutionaries and [insurgents], whereas the US called them [freedom fighters]. The freedom fighters were members of the same group as "insurgents" in Iraq today. ❋ Socialist Realism (2006)

Did that insurgent just [get blown] up by his own [IED]? [What a dumbass]. ❋ James (2005)

The [Marines] went in and [lit up] some [insurgents] who were really terrorists but we can't call them that. ❋ Mike B (2004)

He was [dressed] real [clean]....he [looked] like an insurgent ❋ La La Lisa (2007)