Government authorities blamed a renegade commander of the MILF for Bossi's kidnapping, but it denied any involvement.

We're gambling that the other European countries buy Malin's role as a renegade commander acting on his own accord, and continue to work with you.

"But then the nice little story about a renegade commander will be exposed as a lie."

Somewhat more worrisome is the possibility that renegade commanders or nationalists would take advantage of chaos to seize some nuclear arms.

Officials believe the rocket attacks were by Taliban supporters or fighters for Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a renegade commander.

The fresh fighting, though, is a reminder that renegade commanders abound in a region that suffered from two decades of war.

A Romulan ship with a renegade commander could be mistrustful of the Enterprise appearing in the Neutral Zone.

Israeli analysts speculated that a renegade commander sympathetic to Hezbollah may have ordered the attack.

Forces of the Taliban and Al Qaeda have joined mujahedeen groups in the area who are loyal to a renegade commander, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.

The idea that the attacks on the American carrier groups had been carried out by renegade local commanders was clearly a complete fiction.