1.   Local militia had to protect it against enthusiastic souvenir hunters.

2.   Anyway, the militia had the restaurant manned as if it were Hamburger Hill, not a hamburger joint.

3.   As the fighting continued, the militia had several frantic conversations with the militants on the radio.

4.   As the government tries to restart frozen peace talks this week, the right-wing militias may well have a role in the process.

5.   A Taliban spokesman said the militia had nothing to do with the hijackers.

6.   All the militias had their own jails.

7.   For the moment, the militias have the initiative in East Timor, and the separatist rebels and their civilian supporters have gone underground.

8.   In South Texas, the militia has active units in Bexar, Atascosa, Blanco, Caldwell, Comal, DeWitt, Lavaca, Nueces and Victoria counties.

9.   In the two days since the result of the vote was announced early Saturday, the militias have run wild.

10.   The closest to a battlefield communications system that the militia had, the report noted drily, was the banging of metal cans to warn of approaching forces.