1.   Aidid and Ali Mahdi are under pressure from financial backers and clan members to stand back and leave the area in peace.

2.   Busse clan members live everywhere, Texas to Taiwan to Turkey.

3.   Clan members may squabble among themselves when a female returns with food.

4.   In traditional societies, clan members are often related, and so by aiding the tribe the elders help themselves.

5.   One clan member, acting on his own, later sold it to a traveling collector, and it disappeared.

6.   The two clan members who have been killed so far, he said, were a hospital orderly who was leaving work and a church mission worker.

7.   Police have set up roadblocks in the area and reportedly were looking Friday for three Gamia clan members in connection with the incident.

8.   Although he is the family patriarch, the governor insisted jailed clan members would get no special treatment.

9.   At the time, the Iraqi government portrayed the killings as a spontaneous uprising by clan members against the defectors.

10.   Clan members stormed the al-Majid residence in Baghdad and killed the brothers in a gun battle, the agency said, citing sources in the Interior Ministry.