11.   So we must carry the air war much further, especially against his armed thugs on the ground in Kosovo.

12.   Television cameramen taking refuge in the seaside Mahkota Hotel on Saturday filmed armed thugs approaching the foyer as a dozen police officers stood back.

13.   The British insist that they are dealing with armed thugs who do not represent the Roman Catholic communities from which they have come.

14.   The feelings stirred by the pictures of an U.S. warship carrying U.S. and Canadian military advisers retreating after a hostile welcome by armed thugs are less clear.

15.   The police chief cannot remember the last time armed thugs took over one of the discotheques for a party.

16.   There remains the problem of armed paramilitary thugs, called attaches, still terrorizing neighborhoods, and the opposite problem of emboldened peasants executing their former oppressors.

17.   Pakistan accuses India of deploying armed thugs to drag potential voters to the polling stations.

18.   A wealthy Singaporean businessman made it to the church on time to get married a day after being kidnapped by armed thugs, police said Monday.

19.   Armed thugs threatened Khatami supporters outside a Tehran campaign office, but fled without firing shots and caused no injuries, said campaign worker Mohammed Ali Shapourin.

20.   Armed thugs have overrun the Egyptian business world, and the government is fighting back.