To stop insurgents from blowing up convoys, he's lined the roads here with American troops.
Whether Cheney really believes the insurgents are on their last legs is impossible to tell.
The health official said most are civilians and others are thought to be insurgents.
The AU has about 18, 000 troops in Somalia to help the government battle the insurgents.
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Then conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq proved ground forces were still indispensable in defeating insurgents.
Officials stepped up efforts to prevent insurgents from intercepting video feeds after the July incident.
As others stepped in to direct the response, insurgents stormed through the unfinished building.
Recently, U.S. and Iraqi forces began operations to clear the area of al-Qaida-linked insurgents.
Thailand is holding peace talks with Muslim insurgents aimed at curbing violence in the south.
Hoshyar Zebari, the Iraqi interim foreign minister, says the region has been a hotbed for insurgents.
Forty thousand Iraqi security forces would set up hundreds of checkpoints and crush the insurgents.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld doesn't see the insurgents having coherent political or nationalist goals.
They were occupying those so that they could look out for suspected Iraqi insurgents.
But the Iraqis proved unable or unwilling to hold the line against the insurgents.
In the moments that followed, the patrol was fired upon by a group of insurgents.
Blackwater says its employees were returning fire after they were attacked by armed insurgents.
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The military must ensure that we deal with insurgents from a position of strength.
English has been a language of occupiers and imperialists, but also one of insurgents and democrats.
But NATO officials told investigators they believed Pakistanis had tipped off insurgents about previous missions.
American demands for military intervention against insurgents in North Waziristan will again be batted away.
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The four hid in the garden for six hours as the insurgents took over the area.
Somalia's UN-backed government is battling Islamist insurgents and controls only a small part of the country.
The largely Sunni militias, which include some former insurgents, have assisted in security duties.
Security must be improved, economic activity encouraged, government strengthened and insurgents offered inducements to defect.
Insurgents then would sell the illegally obtained property to private buyers and pocket the money.
An Iraqi whistle-blower said insurgents had threatened to kill his predecessor and are now threatening him.
At least three policemen and five insurgents were killed during the battle to regain control.
Jeff Starr said a civilian informed the military about a home recently used by insurgents.
Sunni insurgents linked to al-Qaeda have been blamed for much of the recent violence in Iraq.
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In recent months they have both, for different reasons, become targets for Islamist insurgents.
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