1.   A cabinet to govern the mythical northern republic was formed, and paramilitary squads known as Green Guards began to appear at rallies.

2.   Add to the mix outlawed anti-guerrilla paramilitary squads, who also are partly financed by drug trafficking and kidnapping.

3.   But other police officers argue that using paramilitary squads for assaults, sweeps and raids increases the likelihood of accidents or shootings.

4.   He has not offered amnesty to paramilitary squads.

5.   In recent years both the guerrillas and murderous right-wing paramilitary squads associated with the army have earned millions of dollars from the drug trade.

6.   In Liberia, President Charles Taylor is said to be using illegal timber revenue to finance paramilitary squads and a brutal guerrilla movement in neighboring Sierra Leone.

7.   It is used by Dragan Vasiljkovic, head of a Serbian paramilitary squad called the Red Berets, which has left a trail of violence across Bosnia and Herzegovina.

8.   Marxist guerrillas and right-wing paramilitary squads battle over ideology, but also for control of coca fields.

9.   On the ground, increasingly, the Colombia military moves out and drug-running paramilitary squads move in to kill.

10.   The incident follows months of complaints by Ruiz and human rights groups that allegedly pro-government paramilitary squads have formed.