21.   Julu slipped out before the eight-nation African intervention force pounded the compound with shells from tanks and gunboats and captured the rebels.

22.   Military prosecutor Lt. Col. Ahmad Gutji said army operation procedures required Kasse to capture unarmed rebels alive.

23.   Nzabampema said the army had captured one rebel.

24.   One rebel was captured.

25.   Prior to the operation, the team had been told by the regional military chief that unarmed rebels should be captured alive, Coto said.

26.   Russian troops captured eight rebels and killed one in a firefight in Grozny, Interfax quoted pro-Moscow Chechen officials as saying.

27.   Security forces launched an offensive to capture the rebels responsible for the attack.

28.   Seventeen rebels had been captured, Defense Secretary Orlando Mercado said.

29.   Soldiers captured three rebels, the agency said.

30.   Since Tuesday, thousands of government soldiers supported by battle tanks, warplanes and naval gunboats have captured rebel regions close to the guerrilla stronghold.