11.   Khan said the men were anti-Taliban figures sent by him to retrieve surrendered Taliban weapons.

12.   Negotiators also managed to sidetrack the issue of whether paramilitary groups should be required to surrender their weapons.

13.   Politicians of both sides agreed that the Loyalist Volunteer Force had made a public relations coup Friday by surrendering the weapons.

14.   Republicans have always insisted that, since the IRA has not been defeated, it should not surrender its weapons.

15.   Prodded by Washington, both sides agreed to surrender weapons, disband their forces and submit to voters.

16.   Qanooni said the government would rather entice than compel people to surrender their weapons.

17.   Samashki residents cannot forgive themselves for having trusted the earlier peacemaking words of Russian generals and for having surrendered their weapons.

18.   Taliban soldiers, in turbans, surrendered weapons to Northern Alliance troops in Chardara, near Kunduz on Wednesday.

19.   The British have said that until the Irish Republican Army begins surrendering its weapons, the mainly Protestant unionist parties will not take part in the talks.

20.   The Croats demanded that the rebel Serbs surrender their weapons before crossing into Bosnia.