1.   At one point I found myself in the midst of three powerful warlords as they simultaneously showered me with magical weapons and jewelry and wished me well.

2.   A major worry over the jirga has been that powerful local warlords will dominate the selection process.

3.   Powerful warlords control some parts of the country, while local leaders exert influence in others.

4.   The powerful Tajik warlord in Herat, Ismail Khan, sent his son.

5.   Vendrell has spent weeks monitoring rising tensions between powerful warlords who control much of post-Taliban Afghanistan.

6.   Ousted government military chief Ahmed Shah Massood, powerful northern warlord Rashid Dostum and the leaders of two smaller factions banded together to fight the Taliban.

7.   Ousted government military chief Ahmed Shah Massood, powerful northern warlord Rashid Dostum and the leaders of two smaller factions have banded together to fight the Taliban.

8.   Afghans would welcome an extended U.S. military presence in their war-ravaged country, Gen. Rashid Dostum, a powerful Afghan warlord, said Friday.

9.   Aliev ousted Prime Minister Surat Huseinov, a powerful warlord and his arch-rival, last year after blaming him for the unrest.

10.   Details of the plan to disarm the Ossetians, first announced by the powerful Georgian warlord Dzhaba Ioseliani, are vague.