He said he did not have control of the local militia in Bunkonde.
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Russian officials said they were local militia or members of a motorcycle gang.
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Others stayed, eventually joining the local militia now allied with the U.S. military.
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CJTF is a local militia created in 2013 to fight insurgency in the region.
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Like several other farmers, Youhanna now relies on a salary from a local militia.
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A local militia, not aligned with Mr. Serraj, claimed to have shot down the aircraft.
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They fought alongside the A.R.V.N. and local militia against enemy main force and insurgent units.
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Mr. Hifter easily captured Surt on Monday after persuading a local militia to switch sides.
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But some local militia members appeared to be massing for an attempt to recapture the area.
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His younger brother, Hashem, and father, Ramadan, were detained in Libya by a local militia on May 24th.
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At least 10 other fighters from the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) are missing, a local militia commander said.
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In Basra, seven protesters were injured after clashing with guards belonging to a local militia group, security forces said.
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"We are also concerned about number of children being recruited by the local militia," said Steven Michel of UNICEF.
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Coalition planes will provide air support while ground operations are to be undertaken by local militia under the SDF banner.
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Around the hospital, fighters from the city of Misrata stand guard against frequent and often deadly skirmishes between local militia.
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In the statement he said "only 28 local militia were killed", adding that their bodies were given to local elders.
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La Jordana claims that opportunistic looters are even pillaging the stranded wildlife, and that a local militia now stands guard.
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When he returned to Faryab this summer, he took up arms with a pro-government local militia in Pashtun Kot.
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The local militia that partners with the US in Syria said the attack showed the extent to which ISIS remains active.
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"Unconventional warfare missions allow US Army soldiers to enter a country covertly and build relationships with local militia," the Army says.
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Disruptions to Libyan oil exports after local militia seized the country's biggest oilfield, El Sharara, were also buoying prices, traders said.
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The YPG and local militia forces in Manbij say the YPG subsequently left the city, though Turkey says that is not true.
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Manbij is under the control of a local militia that is affiliated with the SDF, and is the subject of Turkish-U.
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One Tanzanian peacekeeper was killed and another wounded on Sunday in combat with a local militia, a U.N. mission spokesman told Reuters.
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He started as a self-trained soldier who organized a local militia in Boston and eventually came to command the southern theater.
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Alarmed slaveholders in Louisiana invested resources in training local militia, and slave patrols began surveying slave quarters with increasing frequency and ruthless violence.
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His position with the local militia was informal, but that didn't stop the British from imprisoning the teenager, along with his brother Robert.
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The assailants have mostly been unidentified but are believed to comprise both members of local militia and community members who distrust the response efforts.
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At least five other fighters from a government-affiliated militia known as Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) were critically wounded, a local militia commander said.
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While governor of the industrial Dnipropetrovsk region, he took firm action against pro-Russian separatism, arming and financing local militia groups and volunteer battalions.
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Yet within 21 days of officially beginning its work, the company lost the mine to a local militia supported by the Afghan political elite.
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Manbij, where U.S. troops have a military base, is held by a local militia allied to the YPG which Turkey deems a security threat.
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Israel joined a local militia in 1775 that fought in the Battle of Long Island, which is also known as the Battle of Brooklyn.
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It said the insurgents had taken the village after two days of fighting with local security forces and local militia fighters, killing cattle and destroying property.
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Mr. Elddin said that local militia fighters had responded to the incursion by besieging the building and that their gunfire may have caused the most casualties.
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NOC on Monday declared force majeure on exports from the 315,000-barrels-per-day oilfield after it was seized at the weekend by a local militia group.
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In Monday&aposs attack, a suicide car bomber targeted and killed Haji Hayat Khan, the commander of a local militia battling both the Taliban and IS militants.
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Sharp and Catalan reportedly disappeared, along with their translator and three drivers, on March 12 while investigating human rights issues and local militia groups in the Congo.
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Fighting between government forces and local militia has recently subsided in Congo's central Kasai region although violence rages on in other parts of the vast Central African country.
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Demonstrations also took place in the cities of Najaf and Basra, where security forces announced city-wide curfews amid reports of skirmishes between protesters and local militia groups.
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An additional 21 people were killed in clashes between a local militia and the Taliban in Uruzgan, but the breakdown of security force and civilian deaths was unclear.
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A local woman who eyes the new helmet as a potential acquisition is one of many who tell us the dead man was a thief, caught by local militia.
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Nazar Gul Sholgarai, a commander of the local militia, said the men had been lured to a dinner reception where a Taliban infiltrator had paved the way for the attack.
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The former imperial capital of Vietnam, Hue was defended by the Army of the Republic of (South) Vietnam, local militia units, the United States Marines and the United States Air Force.
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"We have received multiple reports and satellite imagery of security forces and local militia burning Rohingya villages, and consistent accounts of extrajudicial killings, including shooting fleeing civilians," Zeid told the Geneva forum.
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A September 2016 strike in Galcayo, a city more than 350 miles northeast of Mogadishu, killed local militia forces allied with the US, not al-Shabaab fighters as the Pentagon had thought.
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TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Libya's National Oil Company (NOC) on Monday declared force majeure on exports from the El Sharara oilfield, which was seized at the weekend by a local militia group.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The main Syrian opposition welcomed U.S. President Barack Obama's announcement on Monday that his administration will deploy 250 more troops in Syria to help local militia fight Islamic State militants.
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Earlier on Saturday, a suicide bomber killed a local militia commander and at least 12 others outside the governor's compound in Asadabad, the provincial capital of Kunar, near the border with Pakistan.
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Hundreds of people have been killed and over a million displaced in central Congo since fighting broke out last August between a local militia and government forces, the United Nations has said.
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The works are introduced by the following text: In 1984, as a budding photographer, I was thrilled to be hired by a cousin active in the local militia, to photograph various storefronts.
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U.N. sanctions monitors Zaida Catalan, a Swede, and Michael Sharp, an American, were killed in March 2017 in the central Kasai region while investigating violence there between government forces and a local militia.
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Kurdish fighters, who had held Sinjar since recapturing it from Islamic State in November 2015, withdrew before dawn, local militia commander Masloum Shingali told AP. Kurdish militia "didn't want to fight," he said.
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His troops had reached an agreement with local militia leaders on Thursday to roll into the coastal city of Zawiya without firing a shot, putting his forces just west of the capital, Tripoli.
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Recent acts of violence between local militia and Congolese forces in central Congo, including the killing of civilians and foreign U.N. experts, could constitute war crimes, the International Criminal Court's prosecutor said in April.
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"There have been reports of violent clashes between local militia and Congolese forces, a large number of killings of both civilians and non-civilians, kidnappings and summary executions," Fatou Bensouda wrote in a statement.
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That good news came a day after ministry officials grimly announced that two other Italian hostages in the country had likely been killed in clashes between ISIS fighters and local militia fighters near Sabratha.
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Men are shown tied up and sitting on the ground in the 17-minute video, which appears to have been shot by a member of a local militia who speaks with a Shan accent.
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The suspects, among them the leader of a local militia, are accused of killing the women in Tanzania's western Tabora region on July 25, state attorney Melito Ukongoji told a magistrates court on Monday.
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The attackers were members of a local militia called Simba, said Omar Kavota, executive director of the Center for Studies of Peace and Defense of Human Rights, a nonprofit organization based in eastern Congo.
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The 30-year-old had left his wife and two children behind in Iraq when his work in the security service resulted in death threats from local militia and then the Islamic State (IS).
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The 216-year-old had left his wife and two children behind in Iraq when his work in the security service resulted in death threats from local militia and then the Islamic State (IS).
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The attack took place during the night of Tuesday into Wednesday and an investigation is underway, Crispin Mutwedu, a senior Banro official, told Reuters, adding that a local militia had been threatening the mine recently.
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An activist-operated media platform on Facebook, Sweida News Network said a local militia was fighting the advancing ISIS-affiliated group and that at least 30 militiamen were killed in the clashes with the militants.
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Prosecutors are expected to portray Mr. Khatalla as a ringleader of a local militia of Islamic extremists who was angry about the American presence in Benghazi and played a leading role in directing the attacks.
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A military court in the central African country sentenced Lieutenant-Colonel Maro Ntumwa, nicknamed "Marocain", to 20 years in prison on Saturday for crimes he committed as head of a local militia from 2005 to 2007.
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Fighting between the Congolese army and a local militia in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo forced Banro to suspend operations at the Namoya gold mine for a month and temporarily evacuate its staff in mid-2017.
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Fighting between the Congolese army and a local militia in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo forced Banro to suspend operations at the Namoya gold mine for a month and temporarily evacuate its staff mid-last year.
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The precarious security situation, according to the report, was exacerbated by inadequate security at the Benghazi outpost, which was plagued by equipment failures, a lack of manpower and relied on an often-disorganized local militia for protection.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A September U.S. air strike in Somalia killed local militia forces and not al Shabaab militants as the Pentagon had initially believed, the U.S. military acknowledged in a draft statement obtained by Reuters on Thursday.
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A forensic investigator in California accessed its contents and found that, at about the time the ISIS convoy made its first pass, Ihsan had texted a member of a local militia who sometimes worked with the Americans.
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In separate incidents on Sunday, eight people were killed by a roadside bomb in the western province of Herat and 18 members of local militia forces were killed at a checkpoint in the northern province of Balkh.
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The blasts ended a near one-month lull in the violence that has plagued the port city, which fighters loyal to Yemen's president Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi recaptured from the Iran-allied Houthis, a local militia, in July.
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KINSHASA (Reuters) - Three mass graves have been discovered in central Democratic Republic of Congo, where hundreds have been killed since July in clashes between security forces and a local militia, the top U.N. rights official said on Wednesday.
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Within 48 hours, local militia and federal troops had suppressed the rebellion and Deslondes was ruthlessly executed—his hands were chopped off, he was shot in both legs, and then burned to death in a bale of straw.
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"We don't trust anyone, but we'll vote for Hariri in order to show that we exist," said Ahmed Shara'i, a store owner in the Sunni stronghold of Tarik Jadida, who said he moonlighted as a local militia chief.
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Human Rights Watch, Western diplomats and United Nations officials said they were investigating the video, which was consistent with United Nations reports this week of Congolese government soldiers ruthlessly crushing a local militia in the Kasaï-Central Province.
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The fighting in Jaghori district, an area inhabited mainly by Shi'ite ethnic Hazaras, has been going on since Wednesday, when Taliban fighters attacked the district and the government sent special forces units to back up local militia forces.
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KINSHASA (Reuters) - Fighting between the Congolese army and a local militia in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has forced Banro Corp's Namoya gold mine to suspend all operations and temporarily evacuate its staff, the company said on Monday.
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Two North Sinai sources told Human Rights Watch that they recognized the executioner as a well-known member of a local militia, referred to locally as Group 22019, that is armed by and works closely with the Egyptian military.
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About 60 percent of health facilities in the central Kasai region are not functioning since fighting broke out between government forces and local militia there in 2016, said the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).
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Fighting between the army and a local militia in the Kasai region has uprooted more than 1.4 million people over the past year, including 850,000 children who are bearing the brunt of the violence, according to the U.N. children's agency (UNICEF).
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On other developments on Tuesday, ISIS claimed responsibility for Monday&aposs attack in Nangarhar when a suicide car bomber killed tribal leader Haji Hayat Khan, the commander of a local militia battling both the Taliban and ISIS militants, and three others.
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The Borno State Emergency Management Agency said eight members of a local militia, the civilian Joint Task Force, were wounded in the attack, which underscored Boko Haram's ability to continue to operate despite the government's insistence it has crushed the group.
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According to HRW, the Congolese peacekeepers killed an unarmed boy and arrested at least 12 other civilians in the Central African town of Boali in March 2014 after a peacekeeper was killed in a firefight with a local militia leader.
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Another episode, reflecting the blurred, dangerous state of affairs across the country, occurred in the central province of Ghor, where Afghan forces on Saturday carried out an operation to arrest a local militia commander the government has accused of abuses.
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The third story took Gebrekidan to Libya, where she documented how a mother and 12-year-old daughter, after escaping captivity as Islamic State sex slaves, were imprisoned by local militia on the baseless charge of belonging to the extremist group themselves.
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However, when the large-scale massacres began - one of which claimed as many as 200 lives - in October 2014, army commanders in the zone co-opted many of the networks of local militia in an effort to weaken their rivals, the report said.
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"Victims have reported killings, rape, torture and abductions by the security forces and local militia, as well as apparently deliberate attempts to force the Rohingya to leave the area through starvation, with officials blocking their access to crops and food supplies," he said.
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At any time for nearly four years as many as 14,000 Sudanese militiamen have been fighting in Yemen in tandem with the local militia aligned with the Saudis, according to several Sudanese fighters who have returned and Sudanese lawmakers who are attempting to track it.
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Abdul Raheem, a 32-year-old member of the Rezeigat tribe whose full name was withheld to prevent reprisals, said that last year his family paid a local militia leader a bribe worth $1803,360 so an older brother could go to Yemen as an officer.
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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Children in central Democratic Republic of Congo are bearing the brunt of violence between the army and a local militia which has uprooted at least 1.4 million people over the past year, the U.N. children's agency (UNICEF) said on Friday.
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He networked with local militia groups, talked about plans to create a 51st state called Liberty and distributed to his closest followers a "Biblical Basis for War" document that calls for the "surrender" of those who favor abortion rights, same-sex marriage, "idolatry" and communism.
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KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — An American journalist and three Congolese security guards have disappeared in a wildlife reserve in an eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a day after a local militia attacked a security post there, an official said Saturday.
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Fighting has raged across the country, with some of the heaviest coming in the western province of Farah, where insurgents are once again at the gates of its capital city, and in the northern Faryab Province, where dozens of local militia fighters have surrendered to the Taliban.
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The battles there began in April 2004 but stretched on into 2008, as first US-led coalition forces and later Iraqi government forces tried to put down an insurgency led by the Mahdi Army, a local militia controlled by a powerful Shia cleric named Muqtada al-Sadr.
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Much of the bloodshed and intrigue developed around Israel's occupation of southern Lebanon from 1979 to 2000, where the Israel Defense Forces and local militia allies waged an ultimately unsuccessfully fight to keep Israel's northern border out of the hands of Iran and its close proxy/ally Hezbollah.
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Kawsu, who attends a local high school, said his journey to Sicily lasted almost a year as he traveled alone, working odd jobs, through Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Algeria and Libya, where he was kidnapped by local militia and held in a detention center for six months.
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Turkish and U.S. troops on Monday began independent patrols along the line separating Turkish-controlled areas of northern Syria from the town of Manbij, which is controlled by a local militia affiliated to the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is dominated by the Kurdish YPG militia.
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Across the Red Sea in Yemen, they face a steep risk of death again: At any time for nearly four years as many as 14,000 Sudanese militiamen have been fighting in Yemen in tandem with the local militia aligned with the Saudis, according to several Sudanese fighters who have returned and Sudanese lawmakers who are attempting to track it.
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The FBI shot at food pallets delivered to AIM members, as well as at the members themselves; they quietly encouraged Wilson's local militia force and its power-hungry leader to ostracize AIM and all of its supporters in the local community; they even went so far as to employ subversive Counterintelligence Program, or Cointelpro, tactics to turn AIM leadership against its own members.
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For more than 10 years, he presented his collections at the Beaux-Arts brick fortress of the 69th Regiment Armory on Lexington Avenue, but in 2014, Jacobs moved west to the Park Avenue Armory, a Gilded Age building on the Upper East Side once known as the home of the "silk stocking" regiment for the high number of Roosevelts and Vanderbilts who served in the local militia.
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