41.  He conceded that Serbian villages, where he said there were armed groups, were being attacked by the rebels.

42.  He returned to Afghanistan, where he received political protection and support from the Taliban, the armed religious extremist group that now controls much of Afghanistan.

43.  He said Sinn Fein was working for the day when all armed groups would disband.

44.  He told journalists on Tuesday that foreign officials were also concerned about the different unidentified armed groups in the city.

45.  Henao, an anthropologist, was director of the Institute of Regional Studies and had been supervising research into the displacement of peasants by both sets of armed groups.

46.  His remarks came on a day of numerous reports of bombing casualties, including one that involved members of an armed Kashmiri militant group.

47.  Hezbollah and other armed groups in Lebanon will never leave Israel in peace, Ohana insisted.

48.  His statement called into question the authority Arafat exercises over armed groups whose prestige and popularity has soared during the fighting.

49.  Human rights groups have criticized the proposal, saying it will endanger civilians by making them targets of armed groups.

50.  In failed states, such armed groups are hard to contain, as the United Nations found in Somalia and the Organization of African Unity in Liberia.