21.   The tiny force will have no power to impose sanctions for cease-fire violations or disarm rebel factions that have not signed the Lusaka accord.

22.   Then, after they relent, the rebel faction ruling the area vetos the entire operation.

23.   They have reached separate accords with several small rebel factions and have successfully played rogue rebel commanders off one another, creating insecurity and chaos in several crucial regions.

24.   Threats to foreigners come from random street crimes, kidnappers, extortion, vandalism and sudden roadblocks thrown up by rebel factions vying for power.

25.   When a rebel faction of the Russian Army threatens to use nuclear weapons, the American submarine USS Alabama is deployed in response.

26.   When the Soviets left, the rebel factions who fought against them, each heavily armed with U.S. and captured Soviet weapons, started fighting one another.

27.   Other rebel factions, including the extremist Abu Sayyaf group, have continued hit-and-run attacks against government forces.

28.   Overnight clashes between rival ethnic Albanian rebel factions in Macedonia left one militant dead and several others wounded, militant sources said Tuesday.

29.   Police said the men were members of a breakaway Muslim rebel faction that has turned to banditry.

30.   Peace deals have broken down many times in the past in Tajikistan, an ex-Soviet republic where a hard-line government has been battling rebel factions.