Bandits, militias, and cross-border rebel activity in the north and northeast also threaten the security of residents and travelers.

The largest Christian militia threatened today to block Lebanon's peace process if its conditions for joining a new Government are not met.

From Tuku, the militia could threaten the enemy from the rear.

The militia also threatened factory workers not to become involved in last month's decisive general strike against Communist rule.

With Indonesian police standing back, organized anti-independence militias threatened and shot at United Nations officials.

But that has been impossible, they say, because the militia threaten relief workers and the people they choose to work with.

Some Haitians said the militia is threatening to hold them hostage in case of an invasion.

The militia threatened "to kill any nun leaving the convent" because they were allegedly working for the resistance.

On the morning of 8 April the militia captured the bishop, stripped him and threatened to kill him, but were stopped by an army officer.

When the militia threatened to throw grenades over the wall, the army came and said we should give them a truck and they would go away.