Will he extend a protective hand to her if she makes the resolve to confront the warlord?
The ransom: a demand for free airtime for the warlord and senior commanders.
The warlord's forces shot down two U.S. helicopters and killed 18 U.S. servicemen.
The warlord then demands his own, homemade weapon of mass destruction.
Audin's officers led us into what was the warlord's office and receiving room, with a large desk at one end and couches surrounding a low brass coffee table.
Of course, she is well aware that the warlord will give her kind no quarter whatsoever, it being not in the nature of these brutes to show mercy to anyone.
What had raised the stakes for Mr Rowland, his new best friend the warlord, and the warlord's fellow rebels was the discovery of oil in the south of the country.
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Asked why, Cambara, in a straight approach to the task informed by a touch of defiance, told her that she meant to reclaim the family property, wrest it from the hands of the warlord.
On the Burmese bank, a few meters from the wading smugglers is the Riverside Club, owned by Tong Jo, son of Khun Sa, the opium warlord who surrendered to the Burmese in 1996 but now lives comfortably in Rangoon.
The role wasn't a complete sinecure: the ruling warlord, Tokugawa Ieyasu, ordered the seppuku, or ritual suicide, of one of Koetsu's circle, the tea master Furuta Oribe, for some real or imagined disloyalty.
Independent publishers like Dynamite and Boom Studios are also putting out great stories (Dynamite publishes the popular Warlord of Mars series, Boom publishes the break out hit Irredeemable), which is terrific because they help keep the big boys honest.
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In Sangin, power after 2001 was in the hands a warlord from the Alikozai tribe named Dad Mohammad Khan and his family, allies of the Akhundzadas.
More recently, the local warlord Ramzan Kadyrov, whom Moscow has installed as leader of Chechnya, implausibly blames the West for backing the jihad against Russia.
Afghan families are sending one son to join the army, one to the Taliban and one to the local warlord's militia.
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The coup is expected to affect the hunt for Joseph Kony, said the commander of African troops tracking the the fugitive warlord.
But the most peculiar, if not spectacularly bizarre, of all of our relationships was that with Zia Audin, the local warlord in Gardez.
Federal Security Service spokesman Alexander Zdanovich said Maskhadov had Deniyev killed under pressure from the rebel warlord Khattab, who goes by only one name.
This week, in what looked like retaliation, Salvatore Mancuso, the top warlord, claimed that Francisco Santos, Mr Uribe's vice-president, and Juan Manuel Santos, his defence minister, had both incited paramilitary actions during the 1990s.
Whatever else she might do, she must not afford Zaak free access to her affairs, at least not before she has consolidated her position and fortified it against its inherent weaknesses, which might come to light after she sets the confrontation with the minor warlord and his armed minions into motion.
Based in the northern town of Mazar-i-Sharif, Balkh Air is the idea of warlord Abdul Rashid Dostam - who rules much of the country's northwest - and British entrepreneur Christopher Barnett-Jolley.
But it's the children who have transformed the big mustachioed Joseph Kony from a has-been Ugandan warlord into the second-coming of Adolf Hitler (whose little mustachioed face is, of course, also featured in the video).
Former employees say Ellison keeps a book on his desk about Genghis Khan, the ruthless Mongol warlord.
On Oct. 3-4, 1993, the Blackhawk Down incident took place, during a raid against the forces of warlord Mohamed Farah Aideed.
Instead, their hapless mission against a compound suspected of housing the fugitive Somali warlord, Mohammed Aideed, netted nothing more than eight U.N. employees who had been sleeping there.
She does know the name Joseph Kony, a brutal Ugandan warlord who was the subject of a viral video earlier this year.
It cannot wash its hands in Pontius Pilate fashion of either the ICC-wanted M23 warlord Bosco Ntaganda, also known as The Terminator, or Laurent Nkunda, who is wanted by the Congolese government for war crimes and is under house arrest in Kigali.
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Even more worrisome is the manoeuvring of Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, a conservative and piratical warlord, to head the new judiciary.
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