1.   Although he was captured and threatened by execution by a rebel commander, Smyslov was eventually freed and escorted out by local villagers.

2.   And many rebel commanders have been soured by what they view as the failures of other rebel groups that negotiated.

3.   Another man, even as he stood next to a rebel commander, said soldiers had torn through the town, shooting and burning huts, including his own.

4.   As tensions rose, Thaci and the Albanian authorities decided to eliminate Krasniqi, according to former rebel commanders and two former Albanian officials interviewed in Tirana.

5.   At the University of Texas, statues of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and rebel commander Robert E. Lee have been the target of protests in years past.

6.   Avendano, a newspaper publisher, gained worldwide attention for being the first to interview Subcomandante Marcos, the rebel commander.

7.   A delegation of city leaders met with the rebel commanders in Kalima a week before the attack to let them know they would be welcome, local authorities said.

8.   A rebel commander nicknamed Matoshi said villages outside Tetovo had been bombarded overnight with what he called catastrophic intensity by helicopter gunships and artillery.

9.   A rebel commander surveyed the war wreckage on Monday morning at the international airport outside this riverfront town and shook his head sadly.

10.   A rebel commander, Raul Reyes, had told Colombian radio he did not know anything about the hijacking.