The election winner was the royalist opposition party led by one of Prince Sihanouk's sons, Prince Norodom Ranariddh, a one-time rebel ally of the Khmer Rouge.

By contrast, in the span of six months, NATO and its rebel allies have pushed the country back some 50 years.

Without dissent, the Senate approved today an $11.2 billion emergency spending bill whose centerpiece is an aid package to equip and train Colombia's security forces, who are battling drug traffickers and their rebel allies.

The West African force was using tanks and jets in its drive against the remaining strongholds of the military junta and its rebel allies in the far east of the country.

The House approved an $11.2 billion spending bill tonight that includes more than a billion dollars in emergency aid to battle drug traffickers and their rebel allies in Colombia.

The Islamic Propagation Coordination Council called for a rally on 18 February in order to show anger at what it called the "crimes" of "seditionist" leaders and their rebel allies.

First the rebel allies captured two Roman forts in their territory, and a cohort of Tungri defected to Civilis.

Eventually, Ejanix saw the error of his ways, and died heroically at the hands of his rebel allies.

"I take it your rebel allies don't know that," said Random.

While Angola is cool to the cease-fire proposal, Uganda and Rwanda support it, perhaps hoping to lock in the gains of their rebel allies.