1.   The various alliance factions lack training and an effective command structure and often betray each other, he said.

2.   There has been fighting reported between alliance factions in the northern city of Mazar e Sharif and many country roads are still prey to bandits and murderers.

3.   Also, the northern alliance factions may be content to consolidate their victories in Kabul and the north, their ethnic base.

4.   Now two-thirds of Afghanistan is in alliance hands, including the capital, Kabul, and warlords from the various alliance factions are filling the power vacuum.

5.   Rabbani, who never gave up his claim to the presidency, heads the alliance faction that now holds Kabul.

6.   Rahman had been a member of the Jamiat e-Islami party, a northern alliance faction.

7.   Several of those wanted in the killing are senior members of a northern alliance faction that Rahman left after a bitter dispute.

8.   Several of those wanted in the killing are senior members of a northern alliance faction from which Rahman had split.

9.   Several key ministries are held by leaders of a northern alliance faction who, while working with him, still are believed loyal to their backers.

10.   The alliance faction headed by Rabbani, who was once the Afghan president and has never dropped his claim to be head of state, controls Kabul.