21.   The strategic Angolan victory was a boost for Kabila, but it also threatens to transform Congo into a proxy battlefield for a regionwide war of shifting alliances.

22.   U.N. officials say it could depend on shifting clan alliances.

23.   General Aidid was a hero to his followers for resisting the foreigners, but the clan wars continued, with constantly shifting alliances.

24.   Dostam is an expert at shifting alliances.

25.   US Marine Lieutenant General Anthony Zinni said increasing banditry, looting and constantly shifting political alliances between the warring factions made the UN pullout very risky.