"militia" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He told me that he was a trained physician and a member of a militia financed by the Pakistani Army, but he denied that he was an I.S.I. operative.
- Unless more Pashtuns, Uzbeks and Hazaras can be recruited quickly, the national army is going to become just another ethnic militia, albeit one financed by the American taxpayer.
- After falling out with the Gaddafi regime, Haftar set up his own militia financed by the CIA, according to the 2001 book Manipulations africaines, published by Le Monde diplomatique.
- Antoine Lahd, commander of the South Lebanon Army, a mostly Christian militia equipped and financed by Israel, said his men were retaliating for a rocket attack against Jezzin.
- Those paramilitary groups - right-wing, antiguerrilla militias financed by landowners and the cocaine trade - have long targeted unions, accusing their members of being rebels or working with Colombia's two leftist insurgent groups.
- The United Self-Defense Forces, a 15,000-man coalition of militias financed by landowners and cocaine trafficking, has pledged to completely disarm by December 2005.
- One potential arena is Iraq, where U.S. troops can barely handle the Sunni-led insurgency and would face the danger of being overwhelmed if there were serious attacks on them from either Shiite militias financed by Iran or Iranian irregulars.
- Critics of Mr. Osorio, though, have said he misses a central reality of Colombia's conflict: the paramilitary militias, financed by the cocaine trade and wealthy Colombians as protection against the rebels, commit most of the killings in the country.
- The party was formed out of the Awakening movements - Sunni tribal militias armed and financed by the United States Army to fight al-Qaeda in Iraq.
- Shiite militias, financed and armed by Iran and Syria, had great success in fueling this popular resentment.
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