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McVicar wouldn't say how much the Libyan rebels paid for the drone. But she noted when asked that the drone retails for $100, 000.

The front line moved constantly, placed not in strategic locations but wherever a handful of rebels decided to gather and fight.

Qaddafi loyalists put up a fierce firefight for a time, but rebels were able to take control of the compound by this afternoon.

NATO, which has backed the rebels with a bombing campaign, said the transition of power in Libya must be peaceful.

At the beginning of August, rebels said Khamis had been killed in a NATO airstrike in the embattled city of Zlitan.

At the time of his execution, his artificial, hollow laughter was the saddest sound the Rebels present ever heard.

Rasmussen said the rebels are advancing militarily in Libya, although it was unclear how much.

"For the rebels at least, it is no surprise to them that [Gadhafi] security police would do some quite nasty stuff, " he said.

The fear came and went that the hotel would be the scene of a showdown between Gaddafi forces and rebels.

The office said the behavior of the military and the rebels could meet the legal meaning of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

He began to think that Abrahim was wrong, and that the rebels, despite their foolishness, would sweep into town with barely a struggle.

No matter how enthusiastic or courageous [the rebels may be], a handgun has no chance against [Gaddafi's forces].

For a while, Canadian forces and Canadian rebels exchanged attacks on river boats. A number of American citizens fought with the rebels.

More territory slipped from his control, and rebels began to set up rudimentary governments in outlying areas under their sway.

Without proper guidance, we used to be a bit of rebels, slowly refusing the commitments on us.

He said what the rebels need most right now is training, but made clear that should not be up to the United States.

Government troops stationed outside stood at the ready to protect the hotel and fend off rebels.

Rebels and others who had grabbed some of what appeared to be several hundred guns from the compound fired into the air in celebration.

The TNC will have to be particularly alert to risks of revenge killings against Qaddafi loyalists, and of score-settling among rebels.

The Libyan rebels' push into Tripoli Sunday night may end up being a bit of an anti-climax for the oil markets.

He says the rebels are capable of ground combat if they receive just a small amount of modern weapons, which would even the playing field.

He said the rebels' National Transitional Council will soon move to Tripoli from the eastern city of Benghazi.

He said the army would increase patrols along the border opposite Burma's Karen State, where ethnic rebels continue to fight the government.

The alleged mass killing was one of several that rebels have so far uncovered as they consolidate control of the capital.

After a week of air and artillery strikes, the Turkish army said it had killed up to 100 rebels.

No one would believe that the priest was one of the anti-government rebels.

The criticism came after Mr Santos said he would not rule out Colombian forces pursuing left-wing Colombian rebels in neighboring countries.

Jusu does not know the rebels who killed her daughter, but she is not afraid to speak out in front of her community.

That leads to the ticklish question of whether the coalition would be prepared to help the rebels mount an assault on it.

The decision came as military officials said soldiers were trying to hunt down rebels before they returned to their bases in Sudan.

"The rebels have started carrying out some development work as if they are already running a state within the state, " he says.

Rebels also fired mortar shells into a civilian area in Muttur near Trincomalee, killing at least two civilians.

Chadian rebels have been trying to overthrow President Deby for more than three years and briefly reached the capital 15 months ago.

In Zawiya itself, the rebels appeared to be consolidating their control despite shelling and sniper fire from Colonel Gaddafi's troops.

The authorities, however, have made it clear that they intend to recapture all land held by the Tamil Tiger rebels within a few days.

Chen said Beijing is "ready to receive" the Libyan rebels in the near future - though he did not specify a date.

It was the first time the alliance has done so for rebels in the west, said the commanders.

In a symbolic gesture, the rebels broke off the head of a statue of Colonel Gaddafi and kicked it along the ground.

Two weeks ago, journalists were landing in Tripoli, body armor packed, ready to witness the triumphant arrival of the rebels.

Gates said the lack of unity and coordination is one of the Libyan rebels' biggest problems in their fight against Gadhafi's forces.

When the rebels are trying to lift a body it blows up, " he said. "

Rebels appear to have had a hard time obtaining binoculars during the war's early days.

Most of the rebels acquitted themselves nicely, and even though the group was slaughtered, Vargas considers it a moral victory.

The number of these rebels may be much bigger than you think.

As for the downed plane, word had begun to circulate that it was the rebels' only remaining fighter, shot down by mistake.

Zhang Lian and Zhang Ba, with a group of flying rebels, found a way of escape.

As the front line of fighting between rebels and government forces inched closer to Ajdabiya, the city remained relatively calm.

He said the rebels were being helped by aerial attacks by Western forces.

Because she had inside information from her scouts, the Union gunboats were able to surprise the Confederate rebels.

Until she finally rebels, Claire is a virtual slave to her family, while secretly consumed by desire for her French brother-in-law.

For all the festive bunting, and despite the fact that rebels have pushed the front far to the southeast, the Libyan capital remains wary.

These days, though, Faqiar wears the mismatched camouflage of Libya's rebels and a dashing bandana on his head, pirate-style.

But the fact that it carries the new flag hoisted all over the east by the rebels suggests that it may just have switched allegiances.

The Dark Lord toppled into a sacrificial well as the fight resumed, and the Rebels escaped.

Reporting from the front lines of the current conflict indicates that the rebels reflect a complex cross-section of Libyan society.

Libyan government spokesman Mussa Ibrahim, however, denied that the rebels had agreed to a ceasefire, insisting that it was a ploy.

Libyan rebels also welcomed news of his death and urged the United States to kill Colonel Gaddafi as well.

South Africa said Monday it is not supporting the rebels and refuted reports that it had sent a plane to Libya to evacuate Mr. Gadhafi.

Central authority should be restored as civil servants move up to the northern half of the country still controlled by the rebels.

He said his father's forces would align with radical Islamists against the rebels: "Libya will look like Saudi Arabia, like Iran. So what? "

The former rebels have reason to be jubilant as officials say the Maoist party has won more than half of the constituencies declared so far.

While Nato is hammering away at targets in Tripoli it has still not found a way to pay the rebels' bills.

Reporting from the front lines of the current conflict indicates that the rebels reflect a complex cross-section of society.

But now that Western and Arab armed forces are trying to protect civilians and rebels, casualties are unacceptable.

When the rebels moved in to take the president's country palace the next day, no one resisted. The president had gone.

Algeria and the U. S. are working to bring moderates among the northern rebels into a political solution.

The military government is trying to stop the supply of guns to the rebels.

It is certainly a good sign that the rebels are reported to have thrown up a protective cordon around the National Museum.

The fighting in Darfur is usually described as racially motivated, pitting mounted Arabs against black rebels and civilians.

At least 15 Turkish soldiers have been killed in a clash with Kurdish rebels of the Kurdistan Workers Party. or PKK.

Rebels retaliated with rockets as a fireball exploded from four of the oil tanks and the sky above the terminal filled with black smoke.

The White House has also made clear nothing had been taken off the table, including the possibility of arming the rebels in Libya.

The rebels who rose up in Benghazi and elsewhere must be saying and thinking similar things.

The rebels were driven out of Bin Jawwad the next day, a precursor to Qaddafi's ruthlessly efficient march east in the following ten days.

Mr Mutawakil said the president's proposals would then be put to protesters, northern rebels and stakeholders in the south.

The foreigners, some of them migrant workers, are being used for security in urban areas, freeing up other soldiers to fight the rebels.

Ajdabiya, the rebels' forward military headquarters, was bombed on Monday, though it seems to little effect.

But the army spokesman, the commissioner of the region and a local resident told the BBC the rebels' assault had been repulsed.

There are more Afghan troops to train, he said. Others add that there are fewer Taliban rebels to fight in Kandahar.

Mr. Levin said he was most concerned about how the rebels would use the weapons after a cease-fire.

African Union negotiators are struggling to hammer out a peace agreement between the Sudanese government and Darfur rebels. A.

The eastern-based rebels are planning for that day with a provisional constitution, though the details are still fluid.

Rebels have accused at least two of the visiting leaders of facilitating the supply of mercenaries to the colonel's ranks.

Currently, the Libya government troops and rebels in fierce fighting continues, the war has not been significant progress.

The law was introduced in 1960 to help combat an insurgency by communist rebels, a period known as the "emergency" .

As the forest woke up on this recent morning, the rebels prepared for the next phase of their revolution.

But the US president said he hoped military action would create enough space for rebels to "create a legitimate government" .

But it turns out the rebels have the kind of weaponry usually possessed by advanced militaries: their very own drone.

Khartoum denies it is behind that rebellion and says Sudan is ready to fight rebels it says are backed by Chad.

The rebels want the local tribal chiefs to hand over "officers and soldiers who committed crimes and raped women, " he said.

Khartoum denies it is behind that rebellion and says Sudan is ready to fight rebels it says are backed by Chad.

The rebels want the local tribal chiefs to hand over "officers and soldiers who committed crimes and raped women, " he said.

The fighting had waned by early Sunday evening, and a spokesman for the rebels said they would not attack the city or the airport.

Armed rebels have been battling Gaddafi loyalists for more than two months in an attempt to oust Libya's ruler of nearly 42 years.

The rebels are also trying to win over China to gain the widest possible endorsement.

He fought off the Rebels on his own after the remnants of the Imperial fleet fled under Captain Gilad Pellaeon.

The status of the former rebels has been one of the main obstacles to securing a lasting peace since the end of the civil war in 2006.

Another is that the "dark" areas are often lawless, and thus an easy place for rebels to organise or hide. Just think of dark Somalia.

For the West to turn its back on Libya's rebels and to stand aside while its allies shoot protesters in Bahrain betrays its own values.

The Philippines' government started a week of negotiations with communist rebels.

The Philippines' government started a week of negotiations with communist rebels.

And this year he quickly appeared to lose his reputation as a reformer after rebels took up arms against his father.

What Beijing wanted was for the rebels to collapse, with Gaddafi back in charge of the whole country and no "regime change" .

The rebels beat off the colonel's forces in their attempt to recapture Brega, an oil town west of Benghazi (see map).

Fighting between the two sides began to escalate in 2006 and the rebels have lost 95 percent of its territory to the troops since then.

AT MIDNIGHT army pickup trucks trawl Benghazi, the rebels' main town, collecting thawar, or revolutionaries, for the front.

Perhaps the oddest thing about Muhammad was his phone call to Al Jazeera on Sunday, as rebels began to lay siege to Tripoli.

Britain's defense secretary says a small british diplomatic team is in eastern Libya to try to talk to rebels there.

Rebels sought to break the mold, to do something that was exclusively "theirs, " to be weird by way of self-expression.

But a leak on March 30th suggested that the president had signed a secret "finding" that would authorise covert support for the rebels.

But a leak on March 30th suggested that the president had signed a secret "finding" that would authorise covert support for the rebels.

He said it would serve no purpose when the rebels were clearly holding civilians as human shields.

Eastern Libya, the anti-Qaddafi rebels' stronghold, has long been a hotbed of Islamist activism.

The Turkish army began a ground campaign against the rebels back in 2008, and began air strikes against rebel positions in August this year.

And this was but one of many punitive actions taken by Chechen authorities against relatives of alleged rebels.

Rebels at the scene told CNN they had been executed by Gadhafi's men, but it was not immediately clear.

Relying on intelligence from the rebels will not give allied pilots the kind of real-time situational awareness that they will want.

FIRST MESSENGER: In haste I come to tell our king the news: Rebels have tried to strike his homeland o'er Hadrian's Wall.

The fleeing rebels found a _sanctuary_ in the nearby church.

In disarray, the rebels retreated to a mountainous base known as Mustang just beyond southern Tibet inside Nepal.

In disarray, the rebels retreated to a mountainous base known as Mustang just beyond southern Tibet inside Nepal.

But the air raids failed to defeat the rebels, Ugandan ground troops never arrived, and Mr Kony and his closest LRA friends escaped.

So far, the rebels have obtained arms from defecting Qaddafi loyalists, as well as from abandoned ammunitions depots.

" It is the end of my summer vacation, so I thought it would be cool to join the rebels, " Jeon told Hope.

Zuckuss, touched by the Rebels' devotion to one another, had a change of heart.

The rebels were searching for his body among the smoking wreckage when he walked up.

The rebels will have to take Zawiya if they are to be able to advance on the capital.

On the front lines, rebels dodge Libyan air strikes and fire back at Libyan military jets overhead.

The fleeing rebels found a _sanctum_ in the nearby church.

The U. N. had already dispatched inspectors to Angola, to investigate how weapons were reaching UNITA rebels.

The U. N. had already dispatched inspectors to Angola, to investigate how weapons were reaching UNITA rebels.

At the end of the last Tuareg rebellion in 1995, many former rebels were brought into the Niger military as part of the peace settlement.

Mr. Zuma didn't mention whether Col. Gadhafi is ready to step down, as rebels have demanded.

The fighting around the city has gone back and forth since then, with the rebels struggling to keep their ground.

The rebels were finally defeated by the intervention of the British army in 2000 to save the tottering government.

Already there are signs Libya is giving inspiration to the rebels trying to oust Mr. Assad.

Rebels held large swathes of territory after taking heavy losses estimated to be at least 1, 000 killed and many more injured.

France and Algerian rebels agreed to a truce after more than seven years of war.

Whatever the case, a continuing investigation acts as a useful reminder to would-be rebels that they should stay in line.

Last Wednesday Turkey's chief of general staff, Necdet Ozel, announced that at least 250 rebels had been killed in the raids.

Last Wednesday Turkey's chief of general staff, Necdet Ozel, announced that at least 250 rebels had been killed in the raids.

When Grand Moff Tarkin's Death Star was destroyed by the Rebels, it was believed that Vader had been lost to the void.

Two weeks ago Baluchi rebels attacked a Pakistani military garrison and this was the flag that they raised over it.

Ylaya: If I had known the rebels had such charm the siege would have been raised more rapidly. But what of Isabel's fanatical troops?

Regime forces hit back in a dangerous escalation of what rebels have called the battle for the liberation of Damascus.

The official China Daily noted that the Libyan embassy in Beijing had already replaced the old flag with the flag used by the rebels.

Joseph Kony had been expected to meet with mediators from Southern Sudan's regional government who wants the rebels to lay down their arms.

They appear to be well-organised, even claiming that letting the rebels into the city was a ploy.

If the rebels can hold on to Zawiya and take Zlitan (which will not be easy), the impact on life in Tripoli will be profound.

and yet no leader ever had more volunteers who have, under His orders, made more rebels stack arms and surrender withouts shot fired.

and yet no leader ever had more volunteers who have, under His orders, made more rebels stack arms and surrender withouts shot fired.

Thank God for the Great Killer Earthquake that He sent to kill thousands of stiff hearted Chinese rebels against God.

Do you think if left to the rebels alone they would have been able to oust Ghaddaffi?

As the rebels' dream of conquering Tripoli unaided fades, their other aim, to hold fast in the east, may begin to look optimistic too.

The fleeing rebels found a sanctuary in the nearby church.

Rebels holding the base say there was no damage from the strikes.

A spokesman for the rebels says, quote, "The war is only started. "

The BDP looks less like the political wing of the rebels; instead, the PKK now looks like the BDP's armed wing.

Last week, in response to a Kurdish PKK attack on its forces, Turkey launched a major offensive against the Kurdish rebels.

Left-wing rebels in Colombia have ambushed a military patrol killing at least nine marines.

Left-wing rebels in Colombia have ambushed a military patrol killing at least nine marines.

Co-ordination between the rebels and NATO is a bit smoother than it was.

Rebels had previously suggested that other sons may be in or close to the Gaddafi stronghold of Sirte.

The official added that Iran, with its shipments to Syria's government, still outstrips what Arab states have sent to the rebels.

Tens of thousands of police fanned out in the capital, Delhi and other major cities to prevent attacks by terror groups and Maoist rebels.

Since rebels advanced into Tripoli last week, calls have been made by U. S. politicians for al-Megrahi to be extradited.

Leia also decided to support the Alliance, using her diplomatic immunity to smuggle supplies and information to Rebels.

Mustafa Abdul Jalil, the head of the Libyan rebels' National Transitional Council in Benghazi, suggested celebration was premature.

Although countries farther afield have offered to help the rebels, Libya's seven immediate neighbours have remained wary.

Sri Lanka's army defied calls from foreign governments for a humanitarian pause in its campaign against Tamil Tiger rebels.

Sri Lanka's army defied calls from foreign governments for a humanitarian pause in its campaign against Tamil Tiger rebels.

Hence, when man in any activity rebels against the influences of good he harkens to the influence of evil rather than the influence of good.

President Bush says Turkey, Iraq and the United States all agree the Kurdish rebels pose a threat that must be addressed.

Rebels also attacked the building where Libyan state TV is based, taking the channel off air in the middle of a broadcast.

Bout has been accused of supplying rebels around the world with guns and with violating UN arms embargos.

" On Sunday, as the rebels swept into the capital, he insisted: " I am in Tripoli . . . I am with you until the end.

But some of the rebels, like the famed Juan Seguin, were Mexicans.

Sri Lanka's government has claimed that the rebels are no longer capable of launching air attacks.

Each Rebel type now has a unique flag, which means at a glance you can see that all rebels are the same.

On Monday, France and Britain pledged to deploy attack helicopters to help the rebels amid their standoff with Gadhafi's forces.

Analysts, however, are skeptical that the rebels, who have waged a 25-year-long campaign for a Tamil homeland, can be vanquished militarily.

Vitol, in co-operation with Qatar Petroleum, has shipped at least 11 cargoes of fuel to the rebels, landing it at Tobruk.

The army's crushing of the rebels at the time also killed, injured or displaced tens of thousands of Tamil civilians.

Many rebels argue that it will be impossible to defeat their better-equipped adversaries without some form of international intervention.

There was a healthy sprinkling of young men in battle fatigues and fashionable khaki head-scarves: the rebels.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization says ally forces have killed up to 60 Taliban rebels in southern Afghanistan.

The court said Sanussi had "directly instructed the troops to attack civilians demonstrating" in Benghazi, now the rebels' city stronghold.

It was not immediately clear how Ethiopian troops would contribute to the campaign against the al-Qaeda linked rebels.

At the beginning of August, rebels reported that NATO airstrikes had killed Khamis.

They started regrouping the military of the (rebels) into the different sites that have been proposed for their regrouping and disarmament.

That show of concern has seemed enough to halt, perhaps only briefly, the advance of the Tutsi rebels.

Several Sudanese policemen have been killed in a battle with rebels in Sudan's western Darfur region, the Sudanese government says.

Galileo was a rebel and was wise; believers in the flat-earth theory are equally rebels, but are foolish.

For the moment the rebels have too few men to attack Tripoli directly from the Nafusa mountains.

Ethiopian rebels have released the 7 Chinese oil workers kidnapped in a deadly raid on an oil field in the eastern part of the country.

a. Customary Law. The customary law of war becomes applicable to civil war upon recognition of the rebels as belligerents .

Discovery chance after supporting rebels is now no longer unreasonably high.

In Benghazi, Mr. Abdul Jalil said the rebels weren't on the move yet.

The EU has complained of violations, particularly during this year's final stages of the war with Tamil Tiger rebels.

The general thought the prime minister was dealing too aggressively with the rebels.

From the point of view of traditional mainstream society, they are moral degenerates and self-serving rebels.

He urged residents of the city to take up arms against the rebels, and promised that he and his supporters would win.

Rebels stomp proudly on torn-down posters of Colonel Gadhafi, even as many of the haphazard checkpoints around the capital stand unmanned.

The coalition members discussed other ways to help the rebels, like humanitarian aid and money, Mrs. Clinton said.

Troops were rewarded with extra leave for killings of presumed rebels, and for preventing terrorist attacks or discovering the perpetrators.

The rebels are a mixed group, but all share the desire to topple their country's longtime ruler.

The old guard controls the establishment and will use it to disseminate propaganda in their war against the young rebels.

In the far north-east, rebels of a murderous Ugandan messianic cult, the Lord's Resistance Army, still occasionally commit massacres.

There was little sign of the tribesmen arriving on the scene but the rebels' mood of optimism was quickly punctured.

And what if his forces respected the ceasefire but the rebels did not?

The defections came after the rebels' political leadership offered an amnesty over the weekend to all those who would abandoned the regime.

The Kachin rebels still control portions of territory along the border with China, including areas where Chinese companies own plantations.

The rebels abandoned the fight for independence in exchange for a role in the politics of an autonomous Aceh.

Loyalist snipers and mortar crews continue to harass rebels in Tripoli, fighting with extraordinary devotion to a regime which seems doomed.

With Misrata to the east in the rebels' hands, Colonel Qaddafi and his loyalists had no way to flee Tripoli but into the sea.

Psychologically, the UN's endorsement of a no-fly zone (something the Kurds never had) is a major boon for the rebels.

So far the rebels have done fairly well in policing the cities they have taken over.

This might not stop the spread of radical Islam in the north Caucasus or eradicate all the rebels, but it would weaken their support.

THE immediate cause of the fall of Nepal's government, led by former Maoist rebels, was a bid to remove the conservative army chief.

Nakhleh believes, however, that there is nothing stopping CIA officers from training the rebels on captured weapons.

NATO aircraft are continuing their patrols but are less needed, since the rebels now far outgun Colonel Qaddafi's forces.

The President spoke of a stalemate on the ground between Gadhafi forces and rebels.

Some Kurds worry that, having lured the rebels down from the mountains, Turkey will return to its old repressive ways.

In the case of Libya there was never any equivalent enthusiasm to intervene in the fighting between Muammar Qaddafi and the rebels.

Others assumed that if the genocidal Hutu regime were the bad guys, then the Tutsi rebels who overthrew them must be the good guys.

Retired Turkish General Haldun Solmazturk says these attacks are part of a psychological war against the rebels.

The rebels accuse the West of Lee stand and start fighting again and hope to move forward along the main coastal highway.

Pro-government forces in Somalia have been fighting against rebels believed to have links to Al-Qaeda.

He said rebels had halted oil production for the time being because of the attacks.

To hold their ground and protect endangered civilians, let alone advance, the rebels will likely need air support for quite some time. Mr.

With air raids and rocket fire from an unassailable distance, the regime's forces drove the rebels out of the desert.

The allies should arm the rebels if needed, and both the United States and France said that is possible.

King Idris's legitimacy rested on his leadership of the Sanussi religious order, whose flag the rebels have made their own.

There were reports that his forces had been repelled by the rebels, but just listen to this.

This suggests that there are divisions among the rebels, a notion confirmed by Western intelligence sources.

NATO says that co-ordination with the rebels has also improved, enabling targets to be hit with increasing accuracy.

"Rather than trading in a Mao suit for a business suit" , he rebels through the streets of China.

The rebels could not let this pass, and under pressure from the barons, Henry agreed to let King Louis IX of France mediate the dispute.

Remaining defiant, Gaddafi earlier had made two audio addresses over state television calling on Libyans to fight off the rebels.

But public fury mounted when rebels in guerrilla fatigues proceeded to declare "victory" at rallies across the south-east.

The Colombian military had been closing in on the Farc rebels that were guarding the hostages in the southern region of Caqueta.

They're going to have guerilla warfare in Syria. . . rebels against the government if the government keeps up with the violence.

Qatar, one of the few Arab countries contributing warplanes to the air campaign, helped the rebels sell oil to buy weapons and supplies.

The Hutu fanatics who seized power blamed the Tutsi rebels of the RPF for the assassination, and used it to justify the genocide.

When he issues orders, no one dare to disobey them. Wherever he may be, rebels will not dare opose him.

A year ago police launched a big campaign in Lalgarh, West Bengal, to recapture the area from Maoist rebels.

Such confidence may have seemed foolhardy before, but it becomes less so as foreign heavy hitters align themselves behind the rebels.

Rebels had laid out a new welcome mat, the Colonel Gadhafi portrait that once graced the lobby wall.

There are enormous questions: What will the United States and its allies do if the rebels cannot dislodge Colonel Qaddafi?

Western officials are increasingly turning to the same option that the U. S. employed in Afghanistan in the 1980s: arm the rebels.