He is a tough, effective combatant in the scramble for money and power in Russia.
That might seem tough for the current combatants.
Less noticed was his willingness to make some tough decisions to try to bring trust to combatants in Northern Ireland and between India and Pakistan and to ease tensions with North Korea.
Its founder, Saif Allah Bin Hussein, is a former al-Qaeda combatant in Afghanistan.The group has been affected".Things are tough, but we have a lot of supporters," Mr Mazouz says.
GETTING TOUGH, WITH INCENTIVES -- The normal rules do not necessarily apply to "unlawful combatants," the president said, confident that public opinion is with him.
But if wheeler-dealers think Albany's tough, they ought to drive 300 miles west to the Seneca Nation, where combatants enter the political arena at their own risk.
For all the tough rhetoric of the Bush Administration, it prosecuted many more terror suspects as criminals than as enemy combatants.
The Bush team insisted, falsely, that these courts were not tough enough for the war on terrorism and pushed the use of military courts for some "unlawful combatants".
Another combatant is 11-year-old Asif.
Collins does not seem a likely combatant.
