1.   Isolated rebel bands continue to harass government troops in the hills.

2.   Attack helicopters thunder along the rugged, mountainous border with Albania in search of gun-runners and rebel bands.

3.   Clashes take place every day between militant rebel bands and security forces, often in the capital, Algiers.

4.   Over the years they have been reduced to more a deadly rebel band than an insurgency that seriously threatens the government.

5.   Small rebel bands coming out of the province confirmed that bleak assessment.

6.   Police said they believed the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the largest and oldest rebel band, was responsible.

7.   Pastrana ceded territory to the biggest rebel band, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, more than two years ago.

8.   A stone-throwing mob saw off the attorneys on their way to the meeting, shouting slogans against his Kurdish rebel band.

9.   Aceh and the former Dutch colony of Irian Jaya are among three Indonesian provinces where rebel bands have been fighting for independent states.

10.   Along with the intervention forces and remnants of the junta troops, there were various rebel bands in the region that support and oppose the junta.