11.   SDLP and Alliance delegations both had talks with the Stormont security chief yesterday.

12.   Security chiefs are now desperate to trace the weapon before the sniper strikes again.

13.   Security chiefs expressed fears that retaliatory action by the IRA could create a sectarian war.

14.   An FBI security chief knew that Hanssen had installed hacking software in his agency computer, but never questioned why.

15.   An unusual coalition of military leaders, security chiefs, intellectuals, and peace activists is rallying around a proposal that Israel wall itself off from the Palestinians.

16.   And some of the advisors Chubais had pronounced gone, like security chief Alexander Korzhakov, remain serenely in the Kremlin.

17.   Arafat was asked about two Palestinian security chiefs, Dahlan in the Gaza Strip and Jibril Rajoub in the West Bank.

18.   Angry public health officials are meeting with Tom Ridge, the White House homeland security chief, urging the government to put more money into beefing up local defenses.

19.   At his destroyed hilltop headquarters, Jibril Rajoub, the Palestinian security chief in the West Bank, promised that he would rebuild his shattered Preventive Security Service.

20.   At his offices along the Mediterranean shore, Arafat summoned his security chiefs to a strategy-planning session.