Mr. Adams and Mr. Trimble may be expected to have some influence over their paramilitary allies.

Guatemala's 36-year civil war ended in 1996, but some former soldiers and paramilitary allies have turned to drug trafficking, the smuggling of immigrants, kidnappings and theft.

The Haitian military and its paramilitary allies would fade out of sight to undertake guerrilla activities against the occupying force.

Over 250 people (mostly women and children, and almost exclusively ethnic Achi Maya) were abused and murdered by members of the armed forces and their paramilitary allies.

Brandt angrily returns to Mompós and meets with his paramilitary allies to plan a major offensive to take down Claudio and his guerilla forces.

Last year, Guatemala's fledgling democracy came up with an innovative way to fight violent gangs made up largely of former soldiers and their paramilitary allies.

Shevardnadze narrowly survived a bomb attack in August 1995 that he blamed on his erstwhile paramilitary allies.

Colombian intelligence reports also say that the rebels have set up temporary camps in at least three Venezuelan states, eluding Colombian forces and their de facto paramilitary allies.

One of the best sources of evidence are 160,000 documents, including photographs of torture victims, that the United States military seized from the Haitian Army and its paramilitary allies in 1994.

In early 2009, U.S. forces began pulling out of cities across the country, turning over the task of maintaining security to the Iraqi Army, police, and their paramilitary allies.