Sentence examples for targeted guerrillas from inspiring English sources

Even though rank and file soldiers possibly did not realize their patrols targeted guerrillas, senior British officers were well aware that was the purpose.

Even though rank and file soldiers possibly did not realise their patrols targeted guerrillas, senior British officers were well aware that was the purpose.

If Hezbollah fires from civilian villages, the Israelis will target guerrillas in those villages, he suggested.

A cross-border Selous Scouts raid into Mozambique on 9 August 1976 (dubbed "the Nyadzonya Raid") killed over 1,000 people without Rhodesian fatalities, with Van der Byl insisting that the government had irrefutable proof that the raid had targeted a guerrilla training camp.

The blast came hours after gunmen of the A.U.C. -- an outlawed militia that targets leftist guerrillas -- assassinated the leader of the Terrace, a Medellin-based criminal gang, said Gen. Alfredo Salgado, the deputy police chief.

They say that the government has targeted civilians in guerrilla areas, with mass arrests.

Hizbullah's al-Manar TV reported that guerrillas had targeted the warship after it fired missiles into south Beirut.

Throughout the 1990s the Copts, especially in upper Egypt, were targeted by the Islamist guerrillas of the Gama'a Islamiyya.

One noted example of such a scenario was the US backed Plan Colombia operation in Latin America which targeted organized crime and guerrilla groups who were responsible for the kidnapping for ransom epidemic and the illicit narcotics trade.

One noted example of this is the US funded Plan Colombia operation in South America which targeted organized crime and guerrilla groups through the development of the Colombian government's capacity to carry out direct offensive action, with a reported cost of over $8 billion.

U.S. officials are particularly worried that demobilized guerrillas could be targeted for assassinations to discourage peace, as has happened in other post-conflict societies.