31.   Plying shadowy waterways of the Niger Delta in dugout canoes, youths kidnap European oil workers and launch raids on tribal enemies with machetes and torches.

32.   Afghans say U.S. should have checked before launching raid.

33.   Although NATO raids were launched without explicit U.N. approval, Annan stressed that any solution to the conflict should receive the formal blessing of the world body.

34.   Association official Wihadi Wiyanto said police have launched raids in some parts of Indonesia, but this had not been enough to clean up the market.

35.   At the same time, police launched several raids on discotheques in West and Central Jakarta.

36.   Besides purging their own ranks, they launched suicidal raids against their much larger neighbor.

37.   Both countries accuse Kabila of harboring Rwandan Hutu rebels who have launched raids into Rwanda from across the border in eastern Congo.

38.   Bosnian Serb forces also launched a raid, for the second consecutive night, on a U.N.-monitored heavy weapons collection site, but were thwarted by peacekeepers.

39.   Burelli said the guerrillas are trying to provoke the Venezuelan army into launching retaliatory raids inside Colombian territory, which could cause an armed conflict between the two countries.

40.   But rebels launch daily raids and mine Russian-held buildings, checkpoints and convoys, inflicting steady casualties.