51.   John Thava, organising chairman of the National Transplant Resource Centre, said they were delighted that the operation was carried out.

52.   Large-scale operations were carried out Sunday in the Vedeno and Nazhai-Yurt districts where federal troops have sealed off eight mountain villages, ITAR-Tass said.

53.   Local residents, priests and aid workers said operations were carried out in nine districts of Ruhengeri prefecture.

54.   Med-TV said the operation was carried out by Turkish troops who remained behind in northern Iraq after a major incursion in May.

55.   Merriman said Operation Anaconda dealt a serious blow to the ability of enemy fighters in eastern Afghanistan to plan and carry out operations.

56.   Military officials, meanwhile, on Tuesday denied reports that Russian forces carried out operations against rebel bases in villages in southeastern Chechnya.

57.   Newspapers had earlier reported that such terrorists carried out operations against Kurds and Armenian terrorists on behalf of the government.

58.   Police operations were carried out in France, Belgium, Italy and Germany to snare alleged members of Islamic networks, French police said in Paris.

59.   Police spokesman Hanspeter Faeh said the operation was carried out with military precision.

60.   She said the operations were carried out every week.