21.   U.S. military personnel were taking fingerprints from the remains where possible and inventorying personal belongings, Brzozowski said.

22.   Five other key military personnel will also take educational leave, the officials said.

23.   Four hundred security personnel took part in the raids, KUNA said, adding that one female Asian threw herself from a third-storey window to avoid arrest.

24.   He did not say how long the exercises would last and how many personnel would take part.

25.   Ahmad, who was quoted by the official press, did not say where the war games had taken place nor how many personnel took part.

26.   The security personnel also took up positions on rooftops around the Bakshi stadium from where Moslem separatists have in the past fired rockets at the official celebrations.

27.   The Starlight personnel took over.

28.   Red Cross personnel took the soldiers and their families from northern Iraq to Habur, the only border crossing between the two countries.

29.   The dispatch will be the first time that Japanese military personnel have taken part in peacekeeping training in Asia, the officials added.

30.   The ministry did not say how many aircraft or personnel would take part in the exercises, which begin Saturday.