1.   Anyone who opposes the regime is thrown in jail.

2.   People who opposed the regime were executed in a wave of political violence.

3.   Those who opposed the regime were put into prison or even executed.

4.   Their bodies were left for several hours to serve as an example of the fate awaiting people who oppose the regime.

5.   It was a chilling and mysterious tragedy that seemed to befall an unusual number of other medical students who, like him, openly opposed the regime.

6.   Officials made it clear, though, that they are supporting efforts to build a united coalition of Afghans that would, with U.S. backing, oppose the regime.

7.   The United States certainly has a right to isolate countries whose political regimes it opposes.

8.   Such an act of defiance against the wishes of his people will certainly inflame those opposing his regime.

9.   The law was intended to quash any dissent opposing his regime.