Brigades distributing donations teams on bikes.

Some brigades may also have a deputy commander.

In addition to combat units, they may include combat support units or sub units, such as artillery and engineers, and logistic units or sub units.

Within the police force, there are multiple different brigades and each one of them has their own tasks.

He asked me if I wanted to interview the Red Brigades.

Saddam had also more than doubled the size of the Iraqi army, from 200,000 soldiers (12 divisions and 3 independent brigades) to 500,000 (23 divisions and nine brigades).

1981 American Brigadier General James L. Dozier is abducted by the Red Brigades in Verona, Italy.

The current territorial commands correspond essentially to the previous territorial groups of the old territorial brigades.

She had joined the Red Brigades and became a leader of the organization.

Once, for example, I was interviewing this part timer from the Red Brigades.

For that service the Red Brigades were actually paid a fee, which went to fund their organization.

As part of their strategy the Red Brigades never spoke with anybody, not even with their lawyers.

In the 1970s, the turnover of the Red Brigades on a yearly basis was seven million dollars.

The center committee of the Red Brigades had judged me too single minded and too opinionated to become a good terrorist.

He was kidnapped on March 16, 1978, by the Red Brigades (BR), a Marxist Leninist urban guerilla organization, and killed after 55 days of captivity.

When I asked my friend why the Red Brigades want to talk to me, he said that the female members of the organization had actually supported my name.

At the same time, while I was interviewing the Red Brigades, I also discovered that their life was not ruled by politics or ideology, but actually was ruled by economics.

On 29 November 1981, Iran began Operation Tariq al Qods with three army brigades and seven Revolutionary Guard brigades.

The Brigades are locally organized and have been said to suffer from poor cohesion and internal discipline, at times ignoring ceasefires and other initiatives announced by the central Fatah leadership.

British 3 Commando Brigade, with the United States Marine Corps' 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit and the Polish Special Forces unit GROM attached, attacked the port of Umm Qasr.

United States ArmyIn the United States Army, a brigade is smaller than a division and roughly equal to or a little larger than a regiment.

Historian Sergio Flamigni, member of the Communist Refoundation Party, believes Moretti was used by Gladio in Italy to take over the Red Brigades and pursue a strategy of tension.

Now, as many of you may remember, the Red Brigades was a terrorist, Marxist organization which was very active in Italy from the 1960s until the mid 1980s.

The National Guard, headed by the former LIFG deputy leader, Khaled al Sharif, absorbed more than 30 brigades, mostly from the west and southwest.

On 10 July 1943, the Albanian partisan groups were organised in regular units of companies, battalions and brigades and named the Albanian National Liberation Army.

Soon, the Castro brothers joined with other exiles in Mexico to prepare for the overthrow of Batista, receiving training from Alberto Bayo, a leader of Republican forces in the Spanish Civil War.

According to the City Council, between 20 000 and 30 000 people slept on the streets, while brigades check buildings for safety.

But several armed formations, such as Ansar al Shariah and the Imprisoned Sheikh Omar Abd al Rahman Brigades, still reject the transition to party politics and integration into state institutions.

The Israelis found themselves unable to sustain the huge development costs, and faced U.S. opposition to a project that threatened U.S. influence in Israel and U.S. global military ascendancy.

The area was strongly held, and the 4th and 6th Canadian brigades sustained heavy casualties over the course of three days as the Germans fought a delaying action in terrain well suited to defence.

But this also explains why, when I was interviewing the Red Brigades, and then, later on, other arms organizations, including members of al Zarqawi group in the Middle East, everybody was extremely reluctant to talk about ideology, or politics.

It was in this environment that the Armed Revolutionary Action ( Acção Revolucionária Armada ARA), the armed branch of the Portuguese Communist Party created in the late 1960s, and the Revolutionary Brigades ( Brigadas Revolucionárias BR), a left wing organization, became an important force of resistance against the war, carrying out multiple acts of sabotage and bombing against military targets.

Hamas ( ', enthusiasm , an acronym of ' Islamic Resistance Movement) is a Palestinian Islamic organization, with an associated military wing, the Izz ad Din al Qassam Brigades, in the Palestinian territories and elsewhere in the Middle East including Qatar.

In some brigades several numbered battalions carrying the same regimental association may still serve together, and tend to consider themselves part of the traditional regiment when in fact they are independent battalions serving a brigade, rather than a regimental, headquarters.

Field Marshal João Propício Mena Barreto reached Paysandú on 29 December with two infantry brigades and one artillery regiment under Lieutenant Colonel Émile Louis Mallet (later Baron of Itapevi).

But it was only when I interviewed Mario Moretti, the head of the Red Brigades, the man who kidnapped and killed Aldo Moro, Italian former prime minister, that I finally realized that terrorism is actually business.

On 16 March 1978, Aldo Moro, President of the Christian Democratic Party, was kidnapped by the Red Brigades, an ultra left terrorist group, on the day that the new government was going to be sworn in before parliament.

Loretta Napoleoni details her rare opportunity to talk to the secretive Italian Red Brigades an experience that sparked a lifelong interest in terrorism. She gives a behind the scenes look at its complex economics, revealing a surprising connection between money laundering and the US Patriot Act.

Ex guerrilla Mauk Moruk (nom de guerre of Paulo Gama), leader of the recently created KRM, had only returned to East Timor a month earlier after living for a long time in Holland. Moruk had fought in the resistance movement against Indonesia's 24 year long occupation of East Timor from 1975 to 1999.

And he told me that the best time of his life was when he was a member of the Red Brigades and he went sailing, every summer, back and forth from Lebanon, where he would pick up Soviet weapons from the PLO, and then carry them all the way to Sardinia where the other arms organization from Europe would go and take their share of the arms.

Coastal Control Unit ( Unidade de Controlo Costeiro , UCC) Essentially a coast guard service but without dedicated Search Rescue and other functions, is commanded by a major general (or a rear admiral, if a naval officer), is responsible for surveillance and interception at sea and coast, including the operation of the Integrated Surveillance, Command and Control System (SIVICC), distributed along the Portuguese coast.

The 2 the division of Austro Hungarian cavalry of 7 Corpo d'Armata at the orders of Feldmareshall Lieutenant von Lilia, comprising the brigades von Weigl and von Dondorf, was quartered in the garden and the stables of the Castle, while in the fraction of Cerello the regiment of cavalry of reservoir of Eral Alexander von Mensdorff and to Castellazzo de' Stamps the brigade earl Palffy all these forces did not come engaged in way directed in the military operations.