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Bosnian Serb troops brushed aside lightly-armed Dutch peacekeepers and overran the UN-protected enclave on July 11, 1995.

President Salih, who already faces a lightly-armed rebellion in the south and a dormant but more heavily-armed one in the far north, not to mention the al-Qaeda insurgency, is well aware of the "Tunisia effect" and the dangers it might pose for him.

Washington has offered to give Lebanon a number of lightly-armed warplanes by 2013, according to a report in the leftist daily AS SAFIR on Friday.

Some 1,500 Serb troops drove out the lightly-armed Dutch troops, despite two Nato air strikes on Serbian tanks inside the enclave.

special rapporteur Richard Falk responded to Israel's criticism saying that any attempt to view both sides as "equally responsible" is inaccurate as Hamas is a lightly-armed militia operating in occupied territory while the IDF is the most powerful army in the region.

He gives a detailed account of how the machinery was used, how it was expected to succeed against the lightly-armed enemy, and how it ultimately failed.

The Serbs brushed aside lightly-armed Dutch UN peacekeepers in the "safe area" where thousands of Muslims from surrounding villages had gathered for protection from attacks.

WiNSTON Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty at the outbreak of World War II, ordered the building of corvettes, lightly-armed warships, to escort vital supply convoys crossing the Atlantic.

Although, specialist officers were not initially close enough to move in, she ordered lightly-armed surveillance officers to stop him.

Nothing was found, but as the lightly-armed Marines clambered back on their dinghies they were surrounded by six gunboats manned by Revolutionary Guards.

Misinformation and mistakes by British commanders led to hundreds of lightly-armed cavalry charging suicidally into heavily-armed Russian positions.

It is feared soldiers from the lightly-armed 16 Air Assault Brigade could be ambushed and overwhelmed by drug gangs.

But McDowell said the republican movement was "leaving the door open for the IRA to stay in existence as a lightly-armed group of people".

The families have been scathing of the decision to send the lightly-armed Red Caps into a town known to be highly volatile.