11.   Confidence in security is needed both for relaunching civil life and for preventing guerrillas or armed bands from organizing their own rival systems.

12.   Diplomats based in Vientiane believe the killing of Mr Vincent is merely the latest in a upsurge of roadside holdups by small armed bands of Hmong.

13.   Government troops last month abandoned a two-week operation to wipe out an armed band led by renegade commander Rezvon Sodirov.

14.   Gonzales and his armed band simply walk into a dungeon at the command of their enemy, the unarmed Don Antonio.

15.   He sends out a heavily armed band of soldiers who shoot dozens of innocent civilians.

16.   Hundreds of police officers, who have surrounded the Drenica region, continue to hunt down small armed bands that appear to have slipped past the police at night.

17.   In recent months, armed Hutu bands have been attacking more targets, in greater numbers and during the daylight.

18.   In Gaza, heavily armed bands of all ideological stripes repeatedly defy him, some even deriding him as a collaborator with Israel.

19.   Instead armed Hutu bands have been stepping up terrorist attacks and ambushes in the countryside since December, killing hundreds of civilians.

20.   Justice Eduardo Moner said there was evidence Barrionuevo may have committed the crimes of membership of an armed band, illegal detention and misappropriation of public funds.