111.  Regional warlords control much of the countryside and their willingness to cede influence to a national fighting force remains unclear.

112.  Several key Afghan leaders, all of them with large fighting forces, are demanding the deal be renegotiated.

113.  Some consider the group a key to any effort to topple Saddam Hussein, but it has been criticized as ineffective, unorganized and without a capable fighting force.

114.  That forced the guerrillas to withdraw their main fighting force from Jaffna Peninsula, cross the lagoon at Kilali and take up positions in nearby jungles on the mainland.

115.  Still, the northern alliance is the only fighting force in Afghanistan powerful enough to take the ground battle to the Taliban, retired Navy Adm. Leighton Smith said.

116.  The army, which routed rebel Serbs in Croatia in just over three days last month, has become an efficient fighting force.

117.  Supporters say Einseln has transformed an undisciplined, poorly equipped army of teen-agers, Rambo enthusiasts and over-the-hill Soviet-era officers into an efficient fighting force.

118.  Sukarwo said the military believed the attackers came from a neighboring island and were members of a Muslim fighting force known as Lasker Jihad, or Holy War Troops.

119.  Taliban is a fighting force originally made up of Islamic seminarians.

120.  The escalation of highway attacks in the last year has been blamed on armed deserters of the fighting forces.