21.   The police admit they have not entered the village for at least six weeks.

22.   The pro-government group continues to prevent priests and pro-rebel catechists from entering the villages that it controls.

23.   The USGA does not let outsiders lacking the proper passes enter its villages.

24.   This done, the Taliban departed with a warning that any attempt by Massoud forces to enter the village should be reported immediately to a nearby Taliban post.

25.   To enter this village as a stranger is to set off alarm bells.

26.   Villagers claim that Macedonian Special Police forces entered the village and shot the men.

27.   We were to enter the village and spend the night in beds.

28.   Police flew reinforcements by helicopter to the area from Tirana but had so far made no further move to enter the village.

29.   Policemen with bulletproof vests and sub-machine guns scan the wooded hills above the settlement with binoculars, and stop every car entering the village on a dirt road.

30.   Palestinian officials said troops prevented ambulances from entering the villages.