These tax-exempt funds were used not only to build schools and synagogues but to train militias and purchase military equipment, contrary to the charities' stated humanitarian intent.
In 1790 he routed Gen. Josiah Harmar's poorly trained militia.
The P.Y.D. is the most powerful Kurdish faction in Syria and has a well trained militia.
Iran is funding and training militia groups in Iraq, supporting Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon, and backing Hamas's efforts to undermine peace in the Holy Land.
Mr. Sadr's poorly trained militia appears to have been weakened greatly as it has taken on American troops in Baghdad and cities across the southern Shiite heartland, even as Mr. Sadr's popularity has soared.
With the exception of complaints by Indonesia's National Commission on Human Rights, which has said the military appears to be training militia groups of the kind that acted brutally in East Timor in 1999, there have been few objections to the war.
It has also been courting Mr Talabani, while arming and training militia drawn from an ethnic Turkic minority known as the the Turcomens, which is based in Mr Barzani's territory.The Iraqi Kurds are misguided, say Turkish officials, in thinking that their support is as important to America as Turkey's.
Iran is funding and training militia groups in Iraq, supporting Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon, and backing Hamas' efforts to undermine peace in the Holy Land.
These men, minimally trained militia from other nearby communities, had arrived by the 24th, making for somewhat cramped accommodations within the town's palisade on the night of February 28.
In October 1774, the Massachusetts Provincial Congress recommended that each town establish a company of Minutemen specially trained militia who could be ready at short notice in the event that the British Regulars in Boston attempted any warlike movements.
Meanwhile, Australian defences in Papua remained limited and were centred on Port Moresby, consisting of approximately 1,000 only partially trained Militia from the 49th Battalion, two six-inch coastal guns, a 3.7-inch anti-aircraft battery and a few Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boats, in addition to the locally-recruited PIB which was still forming.
