11.   Could he help organize the national army?

12.   During this interim period, a U.N. security force from Muslim countries would maintain law and order until a national army and police force could take over.

13.   Few details emerged of the discussions, but officials said Franks had offered U.S. help in the creation of a national army.

14.   Few people closely involved in the training think that Afghanistan will have a credible national army in less than five years.

15.   Gen. Tommy R. Franks, the general commanding the war in Afghanistan, met on Friday with Fahim and discussed the creation of an Afghan national army.

16.   George W. Bush will have to improvise a means to fight not national armies but a new, furtive and faceless enemy.

17.   He has no national army to enforce his will, nor does the international peacekeeping force in Kabul have the mandate to move outside the capital.

18.   His best hope for independent authority in the future lies with the American-led effort to train a new national army.

19.   Hitting Serbia is trickier politically, since it would be an assault on the national army of a sovereign nation involved in an internal conflict.

20.   Identity cards were abolished, and thousands of ex-Hutu soldiers were integrated into the new national army.