11.   Gen. Ostad Atta Muhammad, the leader of Tajik forces in northern Afghanistan, said on Wednesday that the U.S. military had already taken Walker out of the country.

12.   He says at least half the regular military are taking part.

13.   He said the U.S. military was taking extraordinary security precautions.

14.   He said U.S. military was taking extraordinary security precautions while the detainees traveled from the Afghanistan region.

15.   In the meantime, the military has taken a remarkably defensive stance in the smoldering civil war.

16.   In the past two years, the military has taken over scores of profitable foreign-owned companies and hundreds of businessmen have fled the country.

17.   It begins to look like the military is taking the principle of civilian immunity more seriously than many war critics.

18.   Instead of Rummy doing a hostile takeover on the military, the military took over the hostile Rummy.

19.   Lawmakers say the Serb military has taken a tremendous pounding in past weeks but has survived.

20.   Rivalries among civilian political factions have weakened successive Turkish governments, and partly as a result the military has taken on a larger role in key policy decisions.