31.   Government official and rebel leader Charles Taylor had vowed the battle for a military barracks held by his enemies would end in victory for his troops by the weekend.

32.   He said no hostility had been shown to the troops by local villagers, some of whom had offered food to coalition soldiers.

33.   Human rights groups say the beatings and torture appeared to have been committed in revenge for a spate of killings of Indonesian troops by Acehnese rebels.

34.   Human rights groups say the beatings and torture appeared have been committed in revenge for a spate of killings of Indonesian troops by Acehnese rebels.

35.   Israel, which has said the zone is necessary to guard against cross-border guerrilla attacks, has promised to would withdraw its troops by July.

36.   Israel says it will withdraw its troops by summer even without peace agreements with Lebanon and Syria, the main power broker in Lebanon.

37.   It was the biggest seizure of weapons from Muslim-led troops by the NATO-led peace force since it deployed last December.

38.   It was designed by Hughes during World War II to transport troops by air and avoid German submarine patrols in the North Atlantic.

39.   Most of the money has been dedicated to the training of Colombian counternarcotics troops by U.S. special forces and the deliver of dozens of combat helicopters.

40.   NATO military planners were expected to begin gathering the troops by next week.