21.   Brahimi seemed to indicate that foreign troops might be needed to supervise elections, but U.S. officials have said that most American forces would leave Haiti by Christmas.

22.   A congressional measure, sponsored by Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., forbids the U.S. military from assisting foreign troops that have violated human rights.

23.   Abdullah said that Taliban soldiers, led by the foreign troops, have beaten, arrested and killed many residents of Kunduz in recent days.

24.   Afghans generally dislike the idea of foreign troops in their country.

25.   Albright said she stressed to Milutinovic during their meeting at a Paris hotel that the foreign troops did not represent an invasion.

26.   Both hard-liners and moderates in the Northern Alliance have been concerned that a large presence of foreign troops could provoke Afghan factions.

27.   Bullets have ended so many governments in this central African country that foreign troops have been invited in with the sole purpose of keeping its political leaders alive.

28.   But Indonesia has taken an adamant position that it will not accept foreign troops.

29.   But it is critically important to stabilize the situation in Kabul by sending in foreign peacekeeping troops and establishing an interim governing authority.

30.   But the main problem has been that the two main parties in Bujumbura cannot agree on what the foreign troops would be allowed to do.