(1) Opium is grown freely in the countryside and gathered by farmers who sell it to factories employed by, or paying off, the local warlord .(2) Mr Taylor emerged the strongest warlord from that conflict and won presidential elections the following year.(3) An Anglo-Saxon ruler of this period was above all else a warlord , a dryhten, as the Old-English sources put it.(4) President Charles Taylor is a former warlord who seized power and then was elected to it.(5) Witnesses have told an Old Bailey jury they were imprisoned in a blood-stained room and beaten under the command of an Afghan warlord .(6) The warlord was in Central Asia, in the region along the old border of Afghanistan and China.(7) The warlords already control several small but important enclaves across Afghanistan.(8) The US is buying off regional warlords and militia commanders for a variety of reasons.(9) Just handing over the country to the warlords of the Northern Alliance once the war against the Taliban is won would be a kind of betrayal.(10) Last week Karzai threatened to resign unless regional warlords paid more revenue into central government coffers.(11) Somalia has been destroyed as a country, it has been torn into patches which are run by rebel armies of tribal warlords .(12) Somaliland, in the north, and Puntland, in the north east, are in the hands of autonomous warlords .(13) The regional and local warlords who were the key allies of the US against the Taliban are not advocates of women's rights.(14) The real struggle now is to bring the warlords together to manage the peace.(15) Renegade warlords and militants now control much of the main island of Guadalcanal.(16) The analogy was that this was a nation ruled by twelve regional warlords .
