Barzani, a longtime guerrilla fighter, was alarmed.
The ceremony came six weeks after the death of the longtime guerrilla leader Jonas Savimbi.
The former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt is asking the Colombian government to pay her $6.5 million for damages she suffered after she was kidnapped in 2002 by leftist rebels while campaigning in the south, a longtime guerrilla stronghold.
The ceremony, which came just six weeks after the death of the longtime guerrilla leader Jonas Savimbi, was held in the Parliament building here and attended by President José Eduardo dos Santos and the new rebel leader, Paulo Lukamba.
Kurdish officials said Mr. Bremer, trying to break the deadlock, flew by helicopter earlier this week to the home of Massoud Barzani, the longtime Kurdish guerrilla chieftain and political leader.
On November 5th, the day Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death, Jalal Talabani, the longtime Kurdish guerrilla leader, who is currently Iraq's President, was in Paris, on a state visit.
Behind the chutes, cowboys… On November 5th, the day Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death, Jalal Talabani, the longtime Kurdish guerrilla leader, who is currently Iraq's President, was in… In 1955, after completing my studies at Warsaw University, I began working at a newspaper called Sztandar Mlodych (The Banner of Youth).
The Kremlin contends that Mr. Zakayev, a former guerrilla and longtime political figure in the Chechen separatist movement, was also involved in last week's hostage crisis.
General Kabila, 31, is little known outside the military, and is said to be a more private person and without the charisma that his father, a longtime if mostly unsuccessful guerrilla fighter, could display.
The United States has been keeping pressure on Syria, accusing it of allowing insurgents to cross its border into Iraq and demanding that it close the offices of militant Palestinian groups in Damascus and cease its longtime support for anti-Israel guerrilla groups like Hezbollah.
A spokesman for Ismail Khan, a longtime warlord who rose to prominence as a guerrilla leader during the war against the Soviet Union in the 1980's, said a group of plainclothes American officials visited about two weeks ago and promised air drops and advisers.
