Mr. Karzai had begun easing notorious warlords out of cabinet ministries and provincial governorships.

The other is the moral and strategic necessity of gradually marginalizing the most notorious warlords and pressuring all of them to disarm their unacceptable private militias.

In fact, he took many risks by approaching notorious warlords.

The abductors are part of the same clan as the president of the transitional government, the police chief of Mogadishu and some of the most notorious warlords.

The fighting pits the capital's notorious warlords against Islamist leaders trying to turn the country into a religious state.

John Togo is one of the most notorious warlords in the Niger Delta region.

He is considered one of the country's most brutal and notorious warlords.

The first step should be to mobilize international pressure against one or two of the most notorious warlords, in the hope that others will get the message and fall in line.

But Salvatore Mancuso, one of Colombia's most notorious warlords, is not hard to find these days.

In 2002 Memorial pinpointed them to be members of an armed group led by the notorious warlord Arbi Barayev.