In March it was replaced by the American-led effort.

Part of the reason, the report says, is that an American-led international effort has frozen $3.6 billion in "former regime assets."

In the American-led effort in Iraq, they were an afterthought.

The role of the tribes in the American-led effort may continue to grow.

The improvised American-led effort may grow to 5,000 soldiers, including about 2,000 marines, this month.

Human rights groups say at least 400 people have disappeared in that manner since 2001, when Pakistan joined the American-led effort to curb terrorism.

His best hope for independent authority in the future lies with the American-led effort to train a new national army.

In the American-led efforts to curb such commerce, the recriminations of the gulf war still echo.

Once a stabilization force is established, an American-led international effort should be mounted to train professional, politically independent police officers and judges.

Indian officials hailed the sale, saying it would help thwart the American-led effort to impose economic sanctions.