1.   Announcers on the Hutu extremist-controlled Radio-Televisions Libre des Milles Collines helped organize the militias.

2.   After commissioners did adopt a flood zoning measure in April, an effort began to organize a militia to protect citizens from the depredations of their local government.

3.   Church coalitions have charged that the government organizes militias to abduct southerners into slavery and transport them to the north.

4.   The initial job was to infiltrate Afghanistan, organize opposition militias and take the offensive on the ground to the Taliban and al-Qaida.

5.   The initial job was to infiltrate Afghanistan, organize opposition militias, and take the offensive on the ground to the Taliban and al-Qaida.

6.   Albanian police organize civilian militia.

7.   Albanian police organize civilian militia to try to restore calm.

8.   Bassem Naim, a Fatah leader in Nablus, said the militias were organized to provide added protection for Palestinians.

9.   Gen. Francois Bedaya-Ndjadder called on people throughout the northern provinces to organize informal militias to defend themselves, and attack the bandits if they have to.

10.   Solicitor General Theodore Olson said the Justice Department had changed its previous view that the Second Amendment secures only a collective right of states to organize militias.