Officials said the attack killed three guerrillas — two men and a woman.
Whatever label you choose for Chechnya's underground fighters — separatists, terrorists, criminals, Islamists, opportunists, vengeance-seekers, accidental guerrillas, cornered men, some combination of the above — he has not been seduced.
The camp currently houses 280 guerrillas, both men and women, as well as seven children.
The guerrillas included men and women, mostly ethnic Maya Indians who spoke Mayan languages.
"There is a theory saying a military crackdown can spread resentment and these resentful people will become guerrillas," the man who was ousted in a bloodless coup in 2006 told Reuters.
He is an urban guerrilla, a man haunted by the suffering of his city.
Kadir, who is in his forties and is a thin-faced man with downcast eyes, holds the rank of general, but the peshmerga are an informal group, even for mountain guerrillas, and his men wandered in and out of the cold, unfurnished communications room as he spoke.
One of the Hezbollah guerrillas, a pimply man in his early twenties named Na'im, showed me around.
Iranian officials in Tehran did not respond to requests for comment about the guerrillas or the man the guerrillas identified as a captured soldier.
Makoni was not alone in his admiration for the former guerrilla leader, whose men were accused of atrocities during the war against Rhodesia.
