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militia
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    Most of them just look like indolent Third World militia the world over.†  (source)
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    Minutes after the turnover, Aidid's militia ambushed and killed the seven Nigerians.†  (source)
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    Wait, wait, 120,000 militia and — SONG.†  (source)
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    Inside was a stockpile of guns and knives sufficient to arm a small militia.†  (source)
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    Native Taliban forces mingle with foreign al Qaeda fighters, while mujahedeen militias also operate in the region.†  (source)
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    After all, my grandfather is head of the militia.†  (source)
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    Militias.†  (source)
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    They also had to help the khans form a militia by providing an armed man for every small plot of land.†  (source)
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    Across the tribal areas people were angry and many joined militant groups or formed lashkars, local militias.†  (source)
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    I don't know why the State felt they needed a militia to guard the entrance to the prison on the night of an execution.†  (source)
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    Another brief was filed on behalf of former child soldiers whose terrifying behavior after being forced into violent African militias made the crimes of our clients seem much less aggravated by comparison.†  (source)
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    Volunteer militia under Colonel John Chivington came to kill us—we were mostly women, children, and elders.†  (source)
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    And those opium profits, funneled back to the warlords, as they were called in the West, or commandhans, as they were known in Afghanistan, enabled them to recruit and equip formidable private militias, making the feeble central government of Hamid Karzai increasingly irrelevant the farther you traveled from Kabul.†  (source)
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