51.   He stopped at the blue mosque, then continued to the Mazar Hotel to have tea with local officials, sitting between rival warlords Dostum and Atta.

52.   His two top opponents are rival warlords, Charles Taylor and Alhaji Kromah.

53.   His opponent in the upcoming elections, Alhaji Kromah, is a rival warlord who also signed a peace accord last August and sits on the Council of State.

54.   Hundreds of civilians and rebel fighters holed up there for weeks during the standoff between supporters of rival warlords Charles Taylor and Roosevelt Johnson.

55.   In northern Afghanistan, tensions flared between two rival warlords allied with the interim government.

56.   In eastern Nangarhar, rival warlords are threatening attacks.

57.   Johnson and rival warlord Charles Taylor did not attend the talks.

58.   More than a dozen peace accords that called for disarmament collapsed as rival warlords refused to give up their guns without assurances their enemies also were disarming.

59.   Sandbag bunkers are located on rooftops and at several intersections manned by members of rival warlords.

60.   Rival warlord armies clashed and plundered.