21.   A rebel army seized power and installed Laurent Kabila as head of state.

22.   A tiny Iraqi rebel army could not survive without taking it but would almost certainly be destroyed if it tried.

23.   All the while, he said, police officers asked what they knew about the rebel army.

24.   All were either surrendered Tamil Tigers or suspected of belonging to the rebel army.

25.   Both governments and rebel armies have increasingly conscripted or kidnapped children to use them as soldiers.

26.   But during the war, its wide boulevards and tall buildings turned into death traps, as the rebel Serb army pressed forward with its siege of Sarajevo.

27.   But in the two years before they were held, steps were taken to convert Renamo, the rebel army, into a political force.

28.   But some of the Tutsi troops in the rebel army are also motivated by a desire for revenge against the Hutu militias among the refugees.

29.   But Syla said the rebel army would never completely disband.

30.   But the rebel army does not represent all southerners, and it has its own extensive history of brutality.