In another clash, American security officials were recently asked to leave an important intelligence center in Monterrey, where they had worked side by side with an array of Mexican military and police commanders collecting and analyzing tips and intelligence on drug gangs.
They have faced obstruction from the National Rifle Association in this (in 2012, the NRA lobbied for and got legislation that barred commanders from collecting information about troops' personal weapons).
Regional commanders who have collected weapons in their local bases are reluctant to give them up to the central command, Mr. Illarionov said.
During his visit, the commander, Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, collected thousands of dollars from people who were told that their donations would go to Afghan refugees, according to documents from a little-publicized Egyptian terrorism trial in 1999.
A key source of the dispute centered on who would receive the money that Taliban commanders have been collecting through extortion from the southern port city of Karachi, according to one militant, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the matter freely.
When Walid Majroh, a mujahideen commander, came to collect the mules, he was appalled.
The team has obtained Islamic State military and civilian directives, as well as the passports of Western fighters, and collected the names of military commanders and provincial governors.
Actress Anna Massey collected a CBE - invested as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire - for services to drama.
an Islamist commander in western Africa, on the ransoms militants have collected after kidnapping Westerners.
The Hungarian indictment said that in May 1944, Mr. Csatary was the commander of a concentration camp in Kosice, where Jews were collected for deportation.
