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But just like with many other insurgent groups, there is often way too much... mystique afforded to the drug economies. What competent, even moderately competent insurgents and, frankly, criminal groups do, is to simply tax anything in the area, where they have enough influence to be able to enforce the collection of informal taxation. – Vanda Felbab-Brown	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Clearly drugs are a very important aspect of the Taliban's profits, but just like with many other insurgent groups, there is often way too much... mystique afforded to the drug economies. What competent, even moderately competent insurgents and, frankly, criminal groups do, is to simply tax anything in the area, where they have enough influence to be able to enforce the collection of informal taxation. – Vanda Felbab-Brown	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The Taliban has taken power but the transition from insurgent group to national government will be far from straightforward, functional governance of the nascent mineral sector is likely many years away. – Joseph Parkes	Found on CNN 2 years ago
He had the Jeremiah Wright philosophy. He had the Weather Underground philosophy. And so he had all the insurgent philosophy of how to undermine American values and American way of life and American foreign policy, which he is effectively done. – Anthony Tata	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I think it's fair to say that they still have a significant presence in Iraq and Syria. They're certainly nowhere near as strong as they were in 2017 and 2018, so they have been significantly degraded, again still maintain the ability to conduct insurgent, guerrilla-style operations and that's what they see today. – Joseph Dunford	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We have full preparation and facilities to run a vaccine campaign in the whole country but due to security threats, we can't send our campaigners to the Taliban-controlled and other insurgent areas. – Hedayatullah Stanekzai	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We are trying the identify who planted the bomb. No insurgent group has claimed responsibility so far. – Hashmat Stanakzai	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We are already seeing smaller cells and pockets that take more of an insurgent guerrilla type approach as opposed to an Islamic army or conventional type force. So we have got to be prepared for that. – Ryan Dillon	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
He has certain habits that may have been appropriate at one time and are not appropriate now, he's gone from being an insurgent that people laughed at and a front-runner that people were amazed by to the potential nominee. That requires you to change your role as all this comes together. – Newt Gingrich	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's a lot easier when you are the insurgent, there is a sort of self selection -- everyone else took a pass, but you are the one who decided to take on Hillary Clinton. So I don't think it's in his DNA to be afraid. – Joe Trippi	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
For a number of years, people have been speculating whether the elements involved in the insurgency in the south will be hitting other targets beyond the southern provinces, but we've never seen that happen. And it would be intriguing, if indeed there is any link, why this would happen now. almost all of the insurgent groups have been involved in a dialogue with the military government, so it's illogical for Paul Chambers to want to have a bomb. – Paul Chambers	Found on CNN 8 years ago
One Resolute Support service member and two insurgent attackers were killed. – Brian Tribus	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's very difficult to find in insurgent organizations leaders with certain characteristics. – Barnett Rubin	Found on CNN 8 years ago
In 2014, impunity in journalism murder cases reached a staggering 96 percent and the remaining 4 percent obtained only partial justice, we have become targets. Insurgent groups no longer use reporters to transmit news, but instead kidnap them to make news. They treat us as enemy combatants and spies. This is our everyday reality. – Mariane Pearl	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
ISIS continues to build support among tribal groups, and attract fighters defecting from other insurgent groups. – Faysal Itani	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Afghan journalists face threats from all sides: government officials exploiting weak legal protections to intimidate reporters and editors to compel them not to cover controversial topics; the Taliban and other insurgent groups using threats and violence to compel reporting they consider favorable; and police and justice officials letting threats, assaults and even murders go uninvestigated and unprosecuted. – Human Rights Watch	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave. – George Steiner	added by anonymous 10 years ago

But just like with many other insurgent groups, there is often way too much... mystique afforded to the drug economies. What competent, even moderately competent insurgents and, frankly, criminal groups do, is to simply tax anything in the area, where they have enough influence to be able to enforce the collection of informal taxation.

– Vanda Felbab-Brown

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Clearly drugs are a very important aspect of the Taliban's profits, but just like with many other insurgent groups, there is often way too much... mystique afforded to the drug economies. What competent, even moderately competent insurgents and, frankly, criminal groups do, is to simply tax anything in the area, where they have enough influence to be able to enforce the collection of informal taxation.

– Vanda Felbab-Brown

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The Taliban has taken power but the transition from insurgent group to national government will be far from straightforward, functional governance of the nascent mineral sector is likely many years away.

– Joseph Parkes

Found on CNN
2 years ago

He had the Jeremiah Wright philosophy. He had the Weather Underground philosophy. And so he had all the insurgent philosophy of how to undermine American values and American way of life and American foreign policy, which he is effectively done.

– Anthony Tata

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I think it's fair to say that they still have a significant presence in Iraq and Syria. They're certainly nowhere near as strong as they were in 2017 and 2018, so they have been significantly degraded, again still maintain the ability to conduct insurgent, guerrilla-style operations and that's what they see today.

– Joseph Dunford

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We have full preparation and facilities to run a vaccine campaign in the whole country but due to security threats, we can't send our campaigners to the Taliban-controlled and other insurgent areas.

– Hedayatullah Stanekzai

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We are trying the identify who planted the bomb. No insurgent group has claimed responsibility so far.

– Hashmat Stanakzai

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We are already seeing smaller cells and pockets that take more of an insurgent guerrilla type approach as opposed to an Islamic army or conventional type force. So we have got to be prepared for that.

– Ryan Dillon

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

He has certain habits that may have been appropriate at one time and are not appropriate now, he's gone from being an insurgent that people laughed at and a front-runner that people were amazed by to the potential nominee. That requires you to change your role as all this comes together.

– Newt Gingrich

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's a lot easier when you are the insurgent, there is a sort of self selection -- everyone else took a pass, but you are the one who decided to take on Hillary Clinton. So I don't think it's in his DNA to be afraid.

– Joe Trippi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

For a number of years, people have been speculating whether the elements involved in the insurgency in the south will be hitting other targets beyond the southern provinces, but we've never seen that happen. And it would be intriguing, if indeed there is any link, why this would happen now. almost all of the insurgent groups have been involved in a dialogue with the military government, so it's illogical for Paul Chambers to want to have a bomb.

– Paul Chambers

Found on CNN
8 years ago

One Resolute Support service member and two insurgent attackers were killed.

– Brian Tribus

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's very difficult to find in insurgent organizations leaders with certain characteristics.

– Barnett Rubin

Found on CNN
8 years ago

In 2014, impunity in journalism murder cases reached a staggering 96 percent and the remaining 4 percent obtained only partial justice, we have become targets. Insurgent groups no longer use reporters to transmit news, but instead kidnap them to make news. They treat us as enemy combatants and spies. This is our everyday reality.

– Mariane Pearl

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

ISIS continues to build support among tribal groups, and attract fighters defecting from other insurgent groups.

– Faysal Itani

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Afghan journalists face threats from all sides: government officials exploiting weak legal protections to intimidate reporters and editors to compel them not to cover controversial topics; the Taliban and other insurgent groups using threats and violence to compel reporting they consider favorable; and police and justice officials letting threats, assaults and even murders go uninvestigated and unprosecuted.

– Human Rights Watch

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.

– George Steiner

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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