21.   The rebels used exceptionally careful measures in taking journalists to their safe house.

22.   Weapons were everywhere and a satellite telephone the rebels had used to communicate with their base in Chechnya and with negotiators lay on the ground.

23.   Outweighed in military might, the rebels have used their knowledge of the terrain to wage lightning attacks against Russian patrols and hide in caves that dot the region.

24.   Portable radios are standard equipment for any modern army, and they have been widely used by rebels in breakaway Chechnya, helping them dodge much superior Russian firepower.

25.   Rebels use cooking gas canisters packed with explosives as mortar rounds, which are not accurate.

26.   Rebels use cooking gas canisters packed with explosives as mortar rounds, which have poor accuracy and often miss their intended targets.

27.   Rebels use fear to impose Islamic law.

28.   Rebels use the dense tropical forest as cover for their bases and often venture out to stage attacks.

29.   Rebels used trucks in a series of deadly vehicle bombings last month and truck traffic into Grozny now has been banned.

30.   A large group of rebels using small arms, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars attacked the soldiers in Batticaloa district, said military spokesman Major Kumara Dewage.