1.   The militia is really a direct-mail Marketing operation for conspiracy theory videos and a busy interchange on the information superhighway.

2.   The militias have been know to use torture to get people to confess.

3.   When we came to it, the militia had been there already for about an hour.

4.   Up to that point, the Falangist, Carlist, monarchist and CEDA militias had been covered by civilian law and ultimately responsible to their political leaders.

5.   Are militias in America strictly a radical right-wing fringe movement?

6.   As it turned out, Afghan militias were happy to see the Qaida fighters leave their country, and some even accepted bribes to assure their safe departure.

7.   At first it was unclear what the Somali militia were after.

8.   A Hezbollah spokesman in Beirut said the militia was not ready to comment on the statement by Roed-Larsen.

9.   But local tribal militias were wary of the troops on their turf.

10.   But the militias are only part of a larger political movement that has organized around contempt for the federal government and fear of economic exclusion.