Some witnesses have alleged that National Patriotic Front fighters in Liberia ate the organs of those they had killed.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

While their bodies have now become frail with age, they maintain that patriotic spirit and they never forget the men who were unable to come home.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

Kurdistan's Interior Minister, Karim Zingari, who belongs to the ruling coalition between the Kurdish Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), insisted that international observers saw to it that the process went smoothly.

VOA: standard.2009.07.26

"I was born and raised in Baltimore, where my father was mayor, and we were raised in a family that was devoutly Catholic, deeply patriotic, extremely proud of our Italian heritage, extremely proud of that, and in our case,staunchly Democratic."

VOA: standard.2010.05.11

Mr.Talabani,who is an ethnic Kurd, and whose Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party (PUK) is the smaller of Kurdistan's two major parties, has been mediating between other Kurdish leaders to put an end to the terror activities of the Kurdish Worker's Party (PKK), which have long angered Ankara.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23