While busily recruiting and arming fighters they were reached by the news that the insurgency had prematurely started.

Those who recruited fighters in Britain for action overseas could be charged under antiterrorism laws passed last year, he said.

American commanders say they are also asking tribal sheiks to recruit fighters.

Both men have recruited tribal fighters who previously served with the Taliban.

Without those camps, Al Qaeda's ability to forge alliances with other groups and recruit fighters will be seriously diminished, officials said.

The rebels are actively recruiting fighters in Albania.

Its members, arrested last month, are believed to have been recruiting fighters for Iraq.

The militants systematically kept recruiting new fighters and gathering weapons.

A1 France has smashed a cell that was recruiting fighters to join the insurgency in Iraq.

Meanwhile, rebels from two insurgencies found Comuna 13 fertile ground for recruiting new fighters, among them children.