Word: disarmingly
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...fact, Hizballah's attack comes at a time when the Iranian-backed group faces intense domestic and international pressure to disband its military wing, which is credited with driving out Israeli forces from southern Lebanon in 2000 after a 22-year occupation. Hizballah refuses to disarm, saying that the resistance - as it calls its armed wing - is a vital component of Lebanon's national defense against the threat posed by Israel. Although Hizballah occasionally attacks Israeli positions in Shebaa Farms, it rarely admits to launching operations elsewhere along the border that it is widely suspected of carrying...
...Monday's attack in Sadr City may indicate that Sunni insurgents are retaliating against Moqtada al Sadr, a Shi'ite cleric and politician, and his Mehdi Army militia. Maliki, like his predecessor, has pledged to control or disarm militias affiliated with Shi'ite political parties, including the Mehdi Army...
...many Shi'ites are skeptical of the government's ability to protect them, and many Shi'ite politicians draw much of their influence from the strength of the armed groups which support them. Even if the government is willing to disarm these militias it remains to be seen if it is able...
...Retrospective analysis of why the Somali Federal Government could not locate in the capital city, Mogadishu, was due to the "warlord" ministers of the Somali Federal Government who refused to be engaged in the Somali peace process and choose to keep the country hostage. These warlords refused to disarm, surrender their illegal checkpoints and transform to be national leaders...
...establish a system of governance in Mogadishu, and remove all the checkpoints and terror points that the warlords have set up and disarm all criminal elements that endanger the peace in the city...