31.   Top anti-Taliban militia commanders in Jalalabad, the largest city in eastern Afghanistan, spend hours a day cajoling elders like Khan to support them.

32.   Frontline Taliban Moslem militia commanders Friday dismissed opposition alliance commander, ex-Afghan Defence Minister Ahmad Shah Masood, as a credible opponent.

33.   Hardline Muslim leaders gathered in the Indonesian capital Thursday to protest the arrest of a Muslim militia commander for allegedly provoking a massacre of Christians.

34.   - Three hundred al-Qaeda fighters besieged in the Tora Bora mountain region have promised to surrender, an Afghan militia commander said.

35.   A Liberian militia commander has accused the African peacekeeping force, ECOMOG, of arming a new faction involved in clashes in the northwest of the country.

36.   A spokesman for Afghan militia commander Haji Hazrat Ali said negotiations were going on with al-Qaeda fighters.

37.   A statement from the Rwandan press agency said a militia commander, called Musirikare, was killed in the Nyakabuye attack.

38.   A senior militia frontline commander has threatened to destroy the historic carvings.

39.   A top Afghan militia commander said Sunday there were no more al-Qaeda fighters in the eastern province of Nangarhar, which includes Tora Bora mountain.

40.   Afghan militia commanders leading the forces arrayed against the al-Qaeda around Tora Bora have tried to negotiate the surrender of bin Laden followers.