The Sri Lankan president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, who has vowed to crush the guerrillas' quarter-century campaign, described the town's capture as "an unparalleled victory".
In 2001, Macedonia fought one of Europe's most recent wars, between the government and ethnic Albanian guerrillas – about a quarter of the population are Albanian.
(AP) LONG SHOT WINS ILLINOIS DERBY The long shot Done Talking won the $500,000 Illinois Derby, beating Morgan's Guerrilla by three-quarters of a length at Hawthorne Race Course in Cicero.
According to U.S. military estimates, about three-quarters of Taliban guerrillas fight within five miles of their home.
The people of the mountains resisted invasion even more fiercely than their plains brethren: their greatest leader, Imam Shamil, waged guerrilla war for a quarter of a century.
It plans to close the quartering camps next month, and send the former guerrillas back to their long-abandoned home villages.
Before night falls at the camp, we repair to our quarters next to the cowshed, where one female guerrilla cuts, plaits and arranges another's hair.
"The army is trying to kil us off," a commando official known as Abu Mohammed ex claimed as armed fedayeen milled about outside the head quarters here of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the over‐all guerrilla group.
The attorney general told the court that donations generated from those and other groups supported an extreme right aimed at combating guerrillas on one hand, but also waging "a war without quarter against the Colombian left".
Guerrillas have indeed be come scarce here, and those seen at Abu Mohammed's head quarters were technically there as guards.
