Union leaders describe the league as an armed wing of the ruling Ennahda party, a moderate Islamist group that dominates Tunisia's post-revolution government.

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According to his official biography on the Lebanese army Web site, Suleiman worked closely with the armed wing of the Shiite movement Hezbollah to counter the Israeli occupation of Southern Lebanon.

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The paramilitaries and the Colombian government share some of the same enemies - the left-wing Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the National Liberation Army (ELN).

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The ELN - hard hit by the armed forces and right-wing paramilitaries - wants to hammer out a deal while it still has some military leverage left.

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Lindbergh had by then been activated as a colonel in the Army Air Corps, and he now began traveling around the country for the U.S. government, lobbying for the development of American aviation and for expanding and modernizing the air wing of the armed forces.

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There has been tension between the Nasa and the military since last July, when the indigenous group demanded that all armed men leave their land, be they left-wing rebels, right-wing paramilitaries, police or army.

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Neither the Colombian government nor the armed forces are pursuing any policy of complicity with right-wing paramilitaries.

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