1.   A commander in each county was to have charge of the local militia.

2.   Local militia had to protect it against enthusiastic souvenir hunters.

3.   The Afghan army mounted a punitive expedition against the local militia groups.

4.   He thought they were the local militia.

5.   Although the details of the clashes near Khost remained murky, Afghan warlords in the area said they involved local militias not tied to the Taliban.

6.   A local militia and Palestinian security officials joined the villagers in shooting, Palestinian witnesses said.

7.   A military policy of arming local militias to try to influence or derail the vote through intimidation may have taken on a life of its own.

8.   But investigators said that she had also told the local militia leader that she feared she might be killed by Tutsi refugees in the convent.

9.   But local tribal militias were wary of the troops on their turf.

10.   But the cosmic upset of local militia members is as sharp as that anywhere.