91.   The second came from the nearby city of Towr Kham, where a local commander named Hazrati Ali has seized power.

92.   The third arrived from Sorubi, where Ezatullah, a local commander with only one name, has created his own fief.

93.   Their first job was to establish trust with local commanders.

94.   They took no armed escort, as local Afghan commanders and political figures invariably do.

95.   They said that the U.S. airstrikes resulted from tribal rivalry, that a local commander had called in the strikes to settle a score with members of the convoy.

96.   This, legal experts say, would rule out a trial of any local commander or individual pilot who bombed or killed on a personal whim.

97.   Three days after the fall of Kabul, power vacuums in outlying provinces are being filled by local military commanders, political leaders and anyone with a gun.

98.   Villagers and local commanders also have accused American planes of killing dozens of civilians in bombings near Jalalabad.

99.   When he was governor of Antioquia state, Uribe supported rural security militias, which organized civilians to patrol under local military commanders.

100.   What if compensation is paid to local commanders but not to farmers?