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'' We were asked to believe that someone aged 15 was with the stay-behind people.
ARTHUR REX CRANE 2010
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It was unclear whether the fighting was a desperate last stand or the start of a guerrilla campaign by a "stay-behind" force, modelled on the tactics Saddam Hussein and his top lieutenants used in Iraq in 2003.
Street fighting rages in Tripoli as Gaddafi loyalists fight rearguard action 2011
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The administration failed to follow through on a new status-of-forces agreement with the Iraqis so we could have a stay-behind force there that would help them with their security requirements.
Giving the President His Due Paul Gigot 2011
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But when Crane was introduced as one of Australia's youngest POWs, who had not only fought in a secret '' stay-behind '' party in Malaya but had also been imprisoned in Outram Road, Silver's blood ran cold.
ARTHUR REX CRANE 2010
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Spencer Chapman, which details the adventures of a stay-behind party.
ARTHUR REX CRANE 2010
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Peter Tompkins had his agents track stay-behind Nazi spies and compiled long lists of collaborators who would need to be rounded up.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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It embraces Etruscan history, Italian terrorism of the 1970s, and a real-life NATO plot to create stay-behind teams in the event of a Soviet takeover of Europe.
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Peter Tompkins had his agents track stay-behind Nazi spies and compiled long lists of collaborators who would need to be rounded up.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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He also had a copy of The Jungle is Neutral, by Freddie Spencer Chapman, which detailed the adventures of one of these '' stay-behind '' parties.
ARTHUR REX CRANE 2010
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And it was at that point in the answer that he mentioned fear of stay-behind agents of the old regime.
Good Luck Sailor 2009
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