11.   One Afghan warlord, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a Muslim fundamentalist, is viscerally opposed to Zahir Shah.

12.   Pro-American Afghan warlords in eastern Afghanistan have reported recently that Taliban and al-Qaida fighters are planning to mount a guerrilla campaign against the U.S.-led coalition.

13.   Samar was known as a largely secular feminist and critic of Afghan warlords.

14.   Some worry that Afghan warlords may try to seize control of the council.

15.   The Afghan warlords brushed off questions about the Americans, and about bin Laden and the sophisticated bunker where some believed he might be hiding.

16.   The Afghan warlords had no immediate count of their own casualties.

17.   There was no ground fighting Wednesday, as the Afghan warlords met to consider their next move.

18.   To longtime Tedsters, there is the distinct possibility of a bicoastal rivalry akin to feuding Afghan warlords.

19.   Two years later, the United States agreed to stop supplying arms to fractious Afghan warlords, and Afghanistan descended into civil war.

20.   U.S. support for the international peacekeeping mission in this sense is more than an effort to pacify Kabul and stop Afghan warlords from quarreling.