Sentence examples for local bandit from inspiring English sources

Naquibullah and Asadullah say they were captured at the same time that American troops raided the base of a notorious local bandit, Samud, who according to Asadullah had dealings with Taliban and anti-Taliban groups.

In mid-1929 Peng's forces merged with the forces of two local bandit groups, but conflicts arose over supplies and the command structure, and the two groups rebelled against Peng in July 1929.

Now they face a bewildering array of local bandits, corrupt police, tribal militias, Taliban and NATO forces.

But now the sapphires that summoned local bandits and international dealers are running low, and a coup and protectionist economic policies have crippled the industry.

Not a bad business proposition for local bandits in one of the poorest regions of the Philippines -- or for a growing number of hostage takers around the world.

Kenyan police have mentioned Somali pirates and Islamist terrorists as possible perpetrators but are not ruling out local bandits or robbers.

According to Dicko, the rebels in his neighbourhood were never pious believers — more a gang of local bandits and criminal opportunists.

And as early as the 25th local bandits, from the Polish population, started an anti-Jewish pogrom… Much of the evidence comes not from Jewish survivors but from testimony in the 1949 and 1953 trials.

He traveled to Sardinia to try to organize local bandits into a revolutionary force in an attempt to turn one of Italy's most conservative regions into what he termed "the Cuba of the Mediterranean".

I asked how many people had died in one area and was told, as if this was to be expected, that a number of those who had died had been hostages held in their heavily fortified headquarters in the flood plain by local bandits who had manacled them.

Argentine officers in Côte d'Ivoire chase local bandits in coffee plantations.In this section Nerves on edge Changing calculations Calling on a laureate Look the other way On the march Helping to calm a continent Still too tribal ReprintsThe protection of national leaders has become another tricky priority.