1. Before the incursion, armed militiamen were a common fixture in downtown Bethlehem. 2. But Smyth said that aside from some elite units, most of the soldiers and militiamen were undisciplined. 3. If this sounds half-baked, the militiamen would have been fully flame-broiled. 4. Others appealed to Serbian soldiers to release men the Serb militiamen were trying to pull out of a column of fleeing Albanians. 5. Several black militiamen were among those who stood up to the British at Concord bridge, and some later fought in the Battle of Bunker Hill. 6. There were no militiamen in sight, and no possibility of escape should one appear. 7. An SLA militiaman was wounded in the fighting, they said. 8. And six militiamen are on trial in Jakarta in the deaths of three U.N. aid workers in West Timor last September. 9. At least a dozen heavily armed South Lebanon Army militiamen were on the main street. 10. Bus drivers said no militiamen were in sight at the checkpoints, and trucks and other vehicles were passing at will without paying bribes or extortion money. |