He wants to help. He told me that he wanted to go back to help his buddies.

We, his fellow Argentines, bear ancient sorrows as well as new ones.

Putin added insult to injury by talking to his associates rather than to Yanukovych.

Back then, Mao s Cultural Revolution had forced large numbers of his revolutionary comrades onto a reformist path.

Although dissent was mostly diverted to Afghanistan, bin Laden s most trusted companions (his wife, too) have remained mainly in Yemen.

But a young German doctor picks up Archie Cochrane's exercise book and says to his colleagues, This evidence is incontrovertible.

And if Enrico Fermi were indeed a space alien, wouldn't he be the first to have tried to convince his fellow scientists that the space aliens are not already here?

Seven years later Hayward was posthumously awarded the Albert Medal for his efforts to save the lives of his stricken companions on the Barrier journey.

His companions, however, remain unconvinced and seem resigned to failing to find an alternative to the neo liberal taxation model for paying the foreign debt.

During his 42 years in power, Qaddafi surrounded himself with advisers who were companions from his youth, supplemented by a small coterie of technocrats.

LONDON Enrich yourselves, China s Deng Xiaoping told his fellow countrymen when he started dismantling Mao Zedong s failed socialist model.

Individuals who are never criticized by companions whom they trust, and with whom they share a basic value orientation, have a hard time remaining mentally balanced.

Scott and four companions attained the pole on 17 January 1912, where they found that a Norwegian team led by Roald Amundsen had preceded them by 34 days.

Shackleton and five companions set out in a small boat to summon help, and on 10 May, after an epic voyage, they landed at King Haakon Bay on South Georgia's south coast.

Instead, he and his ex KGB comrades in arms placed themselves above the law, abandoned meaningful social and economic reform, and coasted on high world oil prices.

Finally, a former MODEL commander who had travelled to Côte d'Ivoire reported on 16 February that ex combatants at Toulépleu were armed and in military uniform and that he had seen 5 of his ex comrades and his ex battalion commander with about 1,000 soldiers.

After the speeches and the prayers, the participants went on their feet behind the author of the book entitled Inal Hell and the surviving solider Mamdou Se, who took them to four hills covered with stones and said this was the place where his friends were buried after being tortured. The location of that spot near military barracks brought tears to many and caused others to faint.

A century earlier, in 1821, as Europeans and Americans debated whether to intervene in Greece s struggle for independence, President John Quincy Adams warned his fellow Americans about going abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

His recipe? Western countries should write off half a trillion dollars worth of debt owed to them by the Russian state corporations run by his pals from the Dresden KGB and the Ozero dacha cooperative.

She suddenly became aware of loud voices in the street, and jumped up anxiously, calling out Mu'min's name. Below the balcony one of the martyr's friends was trying to call them on his mobile to inform them that Mu'min's body had been found after the withdrawal of the Israeli army from a number of areas, including Jabal Al Rayyis where Mu'min had taken position before being killed. He was with several of his martyred comrades in Al Shifa Hospital.

In Venezuela, keeping his former comrades in arms happy is obviously a concern for Chávez. But festering conflicts with his Colombian neighbors are also a factor, particularly in view of the constant accusations and suspicions that Chávez comforts and supports the FARC guerrillas in Colombia.

Hugo Chavez may not be financing Morales and Bolivia s other dissidents, but are Venezuela and Cuba really not tempted to meddle in the country where Che Guevara died leading a guerrilla war nearly 40 years ago?