But it is over now, ended by a revolution whose fighters are overwhelmingly young.
Among his patients are victims of a ruthless warlord whose fighters slash the bellies of pregnant women with machetes.
He longed for the Basij, the Iranian militia whose fighters crushed the popular uprisings against the regime in 2009.
She addressed the leader of the FARC, Alfonso Cano, whose fighters held her captive for more than six years.
Some also sympathize with the brigade, whose fighters and their families have suffered terribly under Mr. Hussein.
Instead the court focused on Dr. Afridi's links to Mangal Bagh, an Islamist warlord whose fighters are battling the Pakistan Army in Khyber Agency.
Since October, he had employed a Congolese rebel group called the MLC, whose fighters spent a lot of time raping and looting.
Israel has been bombing government buildings and institutions tied to Hamas, the party that runs the Palestinian Authority, and whose fighters are among those holding the soldier hostage.
Perhaps some of them believe their leader's line that their war is not against Libyans but against Al Qaeda, whose fighters, the line goes, populate the rebel ranks.
In Istanbul's Taksim Square on Sunday, thousands rallied against the P.K.K., whose fighters killed 24 soldiers and injured 18 others in a complex attack last week.
Bashar al-Assad in early 2011, provided new opportunities for AQI/ISI, whose fighters could easily cross from Iraq into eastern Syria.
