41.   In contrast, the Bosnian government supports a multi-ethnic state, and where there have been violations by its local commanders, it has renounced them.

42.   In Bagram, the civil affairs team has hired a local commander, Gen. Baba Jan, as the lead contractor on projects.

43.   In addition, the message promising a strict ban on protests during the assembly does not appear to have reached local commanders.

44.   In Hebron, an Israeli Apache gunship fires a volley of missiles at a speeding car carrying the local commander of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade.

45.   In areas controlled by resistance forces, law is for the most part in the hands of local military commanders and whatever civil administration they have set up.

46.   In Kunduz, Gen. Daoud Khan, a local commander from the Northern Alliance, supplies the local team with security guards, translators and much advice about projects.

47.   In some cases, the new Afghan government has to work with local commanders who were sympathetic to the Taliban just weeks ago.

48.   It may have been divvied up among local commanders or sold off by the central government.

49.   It remains a stronghold of guerrilla support, and the local commander maintains an office in the police station in the center of the village.

50.   Kosovo is crawling with undercover intelligence agents from a dozen countries, but they report to their agencies, not to the local NATO commanders.