The federal forces have burned marijuana crops, arrested suspected drug gang members and disarmed local police forces the authorities say are crippled by corruption.

Hezbollah, which is part of the Lebanese government, would not accept a resolution that appeared to directly empower foreign forces to disarm it.

Still, a strong West African force of about 15,000 men could disarm the ragtag factions and weaken the warlords.

Your lord husband lies dead, your forces disarmed, your castle occupied by my men.

Among the most delicate issues is whether the new multinational force can - or will - disarm the militias.

Therefore, unless an international force disarms soldiers and militia, there is little justification for its presence.

How will foreign forces even know who they are, let alone disarm them?

After the 1940 armistice, Italian forces occupied the Alpine ouvrages and disarmed them.

If the Khmer Rouge gets away with keeping its weapons while other forces disarm, then next year's scheduled elections will be an obscene joke.

In line with the tight deadlines set in the Dayton agreement, the force first separated the warring factions, then moved them and disarmed them.