1.   Meanwhile, Belfast is bracing itself for a vicious war between rival republican terror groups over drugs.

2.   A place like Kandahar, once a vicious war zone, became the image of placidity.

3.   Human rights organizations say rebel groups in African and Latin countries such as Sierra Leone and Colombia use diamonds to pay for vicious wars.

4.   Its officers are rebelling in the face of an increasingly vicious war against other Russians.

5.   Now the same tycoons are fighting a vicious war of words through the news media they control.

6.   The gangsters fighting a vicious war to corner the market in drugs, guns and prostitutes?

7.   Washington should not allow itself to be lured into any involvement in vicious local wars such as those in Chechnya and Uzbekistan.

8.   Instead, Georgia under Shevardnadze has suffered a vicious war, in which it lost control of the rebel province of Abkhazia.

9.   Some fear if fighting breaks out between Dostum and the Taliban forces it will quickly grow into a vicious ethnic war.