41.   But Israeli officials said the authority has not arrested figures identified as top leaders of the HAMAS and Islamic Jihad military branches.

42.   They are Fokker Space BV, the military branch Fokker Special Products BV, electronics unit Fokker Elmo BV and the maintenance unit Fokker aircraft Services BV.

43.   Multimillionaire Steve Forbes wants to streamline deportation procedures and former Tennessee governor Lamar Alexander has called for a new military branch to round up and root out illegal aliens.

44.   Palestinian police have arrested the number two leader of the military branch of HAMAS, Adnan al-Ghoul, Palestinian intelligence sources said Thursday.

45.   Security forces killed two leaders of the military branch of the outlawed Jamaa Islamiyya fundamentalist group in a shootout Tuesday in southern Egypt, police sources said.

46.   The bombing was claimed by the Islamic Resistance, the military branch of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah, in a statment issued in Beirut.