41. Normally assigned to fight communist guerrillas in the northern Philippines, he was asked several days ago to join an army team flown in to help in the digging. 42. Officials had said earlier that they were worried that the prospective strike would hurt troop deployment to southeastern Turkey, where the Turkish military is fighting Kurdish guerrillas. 43. Russia, which is fighting Muslim guerrillas in Chechnya, is keen for a multinational effort against religious militancy. 44. Serbs say their forces in western Kosovo are fighting guerrillas who want to make Kosovo independent from Serbia, the dominant republic in Yugoslavia. 45. Some Republicans say the United States should directly help Colombia fight the guerrillas instead of limiting military support to anti-drug units. 46. Special police officers are villagers trained and armed to fight the guerrillas. 47. Sri Lanka has asked many countries, including India for help to fight the guerrillas. 48. Some observers say the country is also fearful of raising the issue of minority rights when it is fighting Kurdish guerrillas within its own borders. 49. The attacks were directed at troops fighting guerrillas of the Kosovo Liberation Army, but Yugoslav artillery continued to fire. 50. The embassy break-ins have highlighted allegations of human rights abuses by Indonesian troop who have been fighting separatist guerrillas in East Timor for two decades. |