Wednesday's raids were aimed to cut off the guerrillas' supply and staging posts.
Philby passed the details on to the Soviets, and they started picking off the guerrillas as soon as they landed.
Colombia's 38-year-old war pits the leftist rebels against the armed forces and the illegal paramilitary fighters, who were founded by wealthy cattle ranchers to fend off the guerrillas.
The United States general commanding operations in Saddam Hussein's ancestral homeland says that American forces have dealt a damaging blow to the insurgency in this pivotal region of Iraq in the past 30 days by choking off much of the guerrillas' financing and arms supplies.
An explosive device -- most likely concealed in a television camera -- went off as the guerrilla commander who had survived countless battles sat for an interview in Khwaja Bahaouddin, one of his northeastern redoubts.
Framed by the flag of Novorossiya, Ukraine's loose confederation of rebel-held territories, Kuznetsov wears a biker jacket over military fatigues, his olive-green beret badged with a hammer and sickle to round off the Easy Rider guerrilla look.
The Moroccan offensive against camel herds was also meant to cut off the Polisario guerrilla's food supplies and logistical support.
"The mask is off and the guerrillas have shown their true face, the face of violence without reason, before the world," Mr. Pastrana said in Wednesday night's address.
James Brooke (NYT) COLOMBIA: REBELS CUT OFF PEACE TALKS The guerrilla army FARC broke off peace negotiations with government negotiators, charging that President Andres Pastrana's administration has done nothing to control right-wing death squads opposed to the rebel forces.
But the most important thing is a guarantee of the guerrillas' right to participate in democratic politics, without threat to their lives, and on equal terms.Outsiders have a vital role in weaning the guerrillas off their political maximalism.
