21.   Uzbekistan shut down its border with Afghanistan, sending tanks and crack army troops to block the only border crossing at Termez.

22.   Hundreds of crack British troops rushed to Northern Ireland last week to deal with fierce sectarian rioting started withdrawing on Tuesday, the army said.

23.   Hundreds of crack British troops sent to Northern Ireland last week to deal with fierce sectarian rioting started withdrawing on Tuesday, the army said.

24.   A KDP official said the crack troops of the Republican Guard were also deployed facing Arbil.

25.   Ansari has served a prison term in Somalia for her part in the attack in which all other hijackers were killed when German crack troops stormed the plane.

26.   Crack intervention troops were eventually called in to overpower the young man after he barricaded himself in a classroom.

27.   Crack troops were dispatched to the scene and the criminal was shot dead.

28.   Crack French troops in southwestern Rwanda on Saturday set about ordering down roadblocks manned by Hutu militiamen accused of massacres and atrocities against the minority Tutsis.

29.   Crack Israeli troops on Sunday shot dead three top-level HAMAS militants in an ambush on their car, Palestinian sources said.

30.   Crack troops stormed the building on Friday killing three HAMAS kidnappers.