31.   US and Mexican anti-drug officials suggested that the army was present to protect rather than to detain the drug shipment.

32.   Defence Minister Marshal Pavel Grachev assured the Congress that the army is outside politics, whereas Security Minister Col.-Gen.

33.   Armies are the main conventional weapon and have been around for over five millennia in various forms.

34.   The army had traditionally been the guiding force in Spanish politics.

35.   I think the army really was the fall guy.

36.   The red and white army were on the attack all the time.

37.   The army have been keen to keep their anti-terrorist tactics secret, for obvious reasons, so why go public now?

38.   But for now the army is prepared to watch and wait.

39.   Already, another army general is under indictment for protecting traffickers and three more are under judicial investigation.

40.   Althouth Sakik has not been presented to the press, the army has been leaking information about revelations he has supposedly made under interrogation.