1.   Armed bands have attacked monks at remote temples to loot their treasures and have twice raided the conservation office at the temple complex of Angkor.

2.   Armed bands of rebels, who also pillage and steal, attack the army.

3.   Armed bands have repeatedly attacked isolated villages, murdering defenseless people, including children and the elderly, often by cutting their throats and hacking them to death.

4.   At least four groups have armed bands.

5.   At the same time, unidentified armed bands of Tutsi have begun attacking camps near the northwestern border of Rwanda.

6.   Barrancabermeja, the only large city in the region and an important juncture for everything from coca leaves to contraband gasoline, has strategic importance for the armed bands.

7.   Before the coup, the armed Hutu bands confined themselves to knocking down power lines and massacring Tutsi civilians in northern villages.

8.   A number of armed bands, without any centralized structure, are sometimes loosely labeled the Armed Islamic Group, or GIA.

9.   But, they say, he dodges accountability by dispatching a motley mix of armed bands.

10.   Chechnya is filled with pockets of Russian troops and armed Chechen bands, and it is important to know whom you are dealing with.