31.   Also seized in the raid was a photo showing a person identified by Walker as Arnaout sitting with Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a close associate of several terrorists.

32.   An old man named Amanudin leans on his shovel and squints up at the hilltop fort where one Afghan warlord ruthlessly shelled this city for years.

33.   As for Iran, officials there offered one conciliatory gesture when they announced they had closed the offices of former Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar in Tehran and Mashhad.

34.   CIA tries to kill former Afghan warlord and prime minister, misses the target.

35.   Fierce competition among rival Afghan warlords raises the prospect of renewed civil war, although probably not in the near term, a CIA analysis says.

36.   However, relying on Afghan warlords risks dragging U.S. troops into complex local quarrels which Americans admit they often do not understand.

37.   However, relying on Afghan warlords risks dragging U.S. troops into complex local quarrels which they admit they often do not understand.

38.   It also suggests the interim prime minister may have written a hasty epitaph by declaring the time of the Afghan warlord was over.

39.   Local leaders say U.S. special forces have played the old game of power-brokering with Afghan warlords, literally dividing this city.

40.   Local security officials say U.S. special forces have played the old game of power-brokering with Afghan warlords, literally dividing Khost among rival tribesmen.