21.   Austrian officials privately expressed doubt that the U.S. weapons caches could have served to effectively equip an Austrian resistance army.

22.   Beck, a convicted felon, was alleged to have impersonated a U.S. marshal and be building a weapons cache.

23.   British marines said the weapons cache at Surwipan is one of the largest they have uncovered in southeastern Afghanistan.

24.   Burton said he has repeatedly asked the White House and the State Department to investigate the question of weapons caches but they have never responded.

25.   But huge weapons caches have been found in France recently, attesting to the cross-border support for ETA among French sympathizers with the Basque cause.

26.   Ciller says her troops have all but destroyed the rebel operations but have not finished a time-consuming cave-by-cave search for weapons caches.

27.   Earlier, threats to compel President Saddam Hussein to submit to unfettered U.N. searches for illegal weapons caches in Iraq also remained only threats.

28.   Eight Afghans taken in raid on weapons cache released from U.S.

29.   Ellis, who freely admitted membership in the IRA, was acquitted because he had already served a sentence in Ireland related to the same weapons cache.

30.   Eight Afghans detained when British marines seized a large weapons cache in southeastern Afghanistan have been released from U.S. military detention, a spokesman said.