11.   Saddam also reportedly purged the army in June after foiling an alleged coup plot, executing or transferring hundreds of officers.

12.   Some were at the center of the abortive coup plot against Gingrich this summer.

13.   The alleged instigator of the coup plot, Col. Lawan Gwadabe, remains in prison.

14.   The arrests come just weeks after the detention and reported torture of two journalists for writing about an alleged coup plot within the military.

15.   The government immediately discounted widespread speculation that Masasu had been arrested in connection with a coup plot.

16.   Those deaths followed a number of recent violent incidents in Afghanistan as well as arrests involving an alleged coup plot.

17.   Philippe has denied involvement in the coup plots.

18.   Police on Friday arrested a publisher, stepping up a government campaign against a newspaper that reported a suspected coup plot.

19.   President Nelson Mandela on Friday appointed a three-member judicial commission to investigate a possible coup plot reported to him by the military.

20.   Philippe has denied any involvement in the coup plot.