1. Renegade rebels and bandits sprang up, skirmishing with troops and engaging in extortion and marijuana trafficking. 2. There are none of the irregular forces or renegade rebel troops that can make peacekeeping operations far more complicated, uncertain and treacherous. 3. Bandits, mostly renegade Muslim rebels, operate in the area. 4. Hun Sen threatened to arrest the renegade rebels last month if they continued to delay. 5. Renegade Muslim rebels have kidnapped nine college students returning home for a weekend stay on a strife-torn southern Philippine island, a local official said Monday. 6. Renegade Muslim rebels freed nine college students they kidnapped in the southern Philippines after being warned the military would attack their hideout, police said Tuesday. 7. Renegade rebel groups are believed to be still scattered in the area. 8. The kidnappings have been blamed on extremists and some renegade Muslim rebel groups. 9. Geelani, leader of the pro-Pakistan Jamiat-e-Islami group, told reporters that the attack was staged by renegade Moslem rebels working with Indian troops. 10. They fled from their base in northwest Battambang province as forces loyal to a renegade rebel faction closed in. |