While besieging the insurgent general in Milan, Gallienus was murdered by his senior officers; his cavalry commander, Claudius, succeeded him as Claudius II.
The siege of a barracks in Madrid, for example, is recounted by three people: a student who supported the insurgent general, Francisco Franco; a captain loyal to the leftist government; and a 15-year-old boy who was just trying to stay out of the line of fire.
Nhu's secret agents had fitted the home with a direct phone line to the palace, so the insurgent generals believed that the brothers were still besieged inside Gia Long.
"There will be a big clearance operation and we will separate the civilian population from the insurgents," General Azimi said.
Even as the West's soldiers make progress, its diplomats bang their heads against the lamentable administration of Afghanistan's president, Hamid Karzai.After years of losing ground to insurgents, General David Petraeus, the NATO commander in the country, says that the coalition has at last "got the 'inputs' right in Afghanistan for the first time".
"What was initially reported to have been a suspected insider attack is now understood to possibly have involved insurgent fire," General Bradshaw said.
To the question as to what fate should be meted out to the insurgent ex-generals, 30% were for death penalty; 25% proposed prison; 215 favored leaving them to "the extreme rigors of the law," 1% thought they should be exiled; 6% that they be shown clemency.
"On this side it's us, and on the other the insurgents," said Brigadier General Sarhad Qader, the long-time Kurdish police chief for Kirkuk, as water lapped at the heels of his boots.
"I would argue that the level of confidence is not to the degree where they're supporting insurgent groups anymore," the general said of Iraqis, "but that they're essentially fence-sitting.
Over the next six months, there was a drop in aerial bombing and civilian casualties in Afghanistan, but the toll increased again with the rise in insurgent activity this summer, as General McNeill handed off authority to the new American commander, Gen. David McKiernan.
General Petraeus says there is "no question" that the ALP is making a big impact, although critics fear that this "militia" may inevitably turn on the population it is supposed to serve.According to the general, some insurgent groups are also increasingly interested in a reintegration programme under which fighters give up their arms in return for an amnesty and some vocational training.
