Demoralized by defeat, the army nearly disintegrated in the subsequent retreat, which was only stopped by an armistice arranged on 22 December.

In the poisonous political atmosphere that has bedeviled the UN after the Iraq War, widespread disillusionment is not surprising.

And they were to blow up strategic targets and take over the country, and they were foiled by a Nigerian James Bond called Coyote Williams, and a Jewish Nazi hunter.

Such attacks include both those intended to cause mass devastation and those intended primarily to terrorize, blackmail or cause economic damage.a The description of chemical weapons in the 1992 Chemical Weapons Convention includes specific toxic chemicals and their precursors, munitions, and devices used to deploy them lethally, and any related equipment.b

In both cases, the inability to reach a consensus stymied the attempts of the many to make progress in achieving long standing nuclear disarmament and non proliferation goals.

THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE and obstruct ( others ) from the way of God will have wasted their deeds .

Allah has destroyed the deeds of those who disbelieved and prevented from Allah s way .

Those who disbelieve and bar from God 's way , God will send their works astray .

Those who disbelieve and hinder others from the way of Allah , He shall send their works astray .

Those who disbelieve in the Oneness of Allah , and in the Message of Prophet Muhammad SAW , and hinder ( men ) from the Path of Allah ( Islamic Monotheism ) , He will render their deeds vain .

Those who disbelieve and repel from the path of God He nullifies their works .

Allah has caused the works of those who disbelieve and hinder people from the way of Allah to go to waste .

Those who disbelieve and turn ( men ) from the way of Allah , He rendereth their actions vain .

Those who are themselves faithless and bar others from the way of Allah He has rendered their works fruitless .

Those who disbelieve and bar from the way of Allah , Allah will cause their deeds go astray .

Those who disbelieve and avert people from the way of Allah He will waste their deeds .

God has made devoid of all virtue the deeds of those who have disbelieved and prevented others from the way of God .

( As for ) those who disbelieve and turn away from Allah 's way , He shall render their works ineffective .

God will bring to naught all the good deeds of those who are bent on denying the truth and bar others from the path of God .

Those who reject Allah and hinder ( men ) from the Path of Allah , their deeds will Allah render astray ( from their mark ) .

But most disappointingly for Uribe, though understandably, the US President was unable to bring with him guaranteed congressional support either for Colombia s Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the US, nor funding renewal for the so called Plan Colombia.

Early this month, India s army foiled an attempted incursion by a group of 30 to 40 militants from Pakistani territory, leading Indian critics to decry official peace overtures.

Violence in Thailand s predominantly Muslim south seemed to dent his ambitions last year, but his Thai Rak Thai (TRT) party s landslide victory last February gave his bid for regional leadership a new lease on life.