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Nor had Massoud shown much aptitude for governing except as a ruthless warlord.
A warlord seized power in Beijing, hoping to restore the monarchy.
By the autumn of 1993, U.S. commanders concluded that the main source of trouble was a warlord, Mohammed Farrah Aidid.
The Washington Post leads with word that Charles Taylor, the warlord who started and dominated Liberia's seven-year civil war (estimated deaths: 150,000) is winning his country's presidential election.
The Edo period extended from the end of the civil wars of the 16 th century (the source of all samurai films) and the consolidation of power under the warlord Tokugawa Ieyasu, to the Meiji Restoration, when Japan adopted something resembling a parliamentary monarchy under the emperor.