1.   Troops mopped up the last pockets of resistance by men loyal to the former rebel movement, Unita.

2.   Along with gratitude, some feel fear that the Taliban might replace the terror sown by the former rebel groups with enforced Muslim fundamentalism.

3.   Although a former senior rebel officer in Tirana said that Thaci was responsible, a Western diplomat contends that that Ceku was killed by a Serb sniper.

4.   As tensions rose, Thaci and the Albanian authorities decided to eliminate Krasniqi, according to former rebel commanders and two former Albanian officials interviewed in Tirana.

5.   Betancourt was taken while trying to enter a former rebel enclave just as the army moved in to reclaim it.

6.   A handful of its members later won mayoral elections in former rebel strongholds.

7.   A large number of former rebels, their supporters, government soldiers, and others displaced by war, have still not been resettled.

8.   According to Chadian journalists who were there, the former rebel fighter could not contain his joy and took a rifle and fired shots in the air.

9.   Albanian politicians issued standard statements, and only one, the former rebel commander Ramush Haradinaj, condemned the bus bomb as an act of terrorism.

10.   But Camero, a shopkeeper who is married and is raising two children, said he could not help but be drawn to the idea of meeting former rebels.