1.   However, military experts remained skeptical that government forces would really attempt such a broadly advertised all-out attack into the several hundred Serbian artillery pieces ringing the capital.

2.   Unsmiling, they man the checkpoints that ring the capital, deciding who may enter and who will be turned away.

3.   Authorities have cordoned off the area around the sign found on the highway that rings the capital, the Interfax news agency reported.

4.   Riot police sent looters fleeing amid a fusillade of rubber bullets and tear gas in the poor neighborhoods ringing the capital.

5.   Reopening the Sarajevo airport followed the U.S.-brokered agreement for the Bosnian Serbs to pull back heavy weapons ringing the capital.

6.   Squatter invasions are common in the shantytowns that ring the capital, but the squatters usually move onto state-owned property.

7.   Shortly before he arrived at the presidency, where the federal government has its offices, Bosnian Serb gunners ringing the capital fired two anti-tank missiles at the building.

8.   Taliban antiaircraft fire erupted when the jet fighter appeared over mountains that ring the capital, but there was no sign the jet was hit.

9.   There was no sign by late Sunday that Serbs were withdrawing heavy weapons ringing the capital, as demanded by the United Nations and the western alliance.

10.   Throughout a day of frenzied violence, riot police sent looters fleeing amid a fusillade of rubber bullets and tear gas in the poor neighborhoods ringing the capital.