71.   Elsewhere, similar cases in recent decades sometimes have ended with dramatic raids by commando units.

72.   Fikret Boskvil was captured last November in southern Bosnia, where he was a member of a Bosnian government army commando unit.

73.   Five soldiers from an elite commando unit died from a missile fired during the training exercise.

74.   He denied suggestions that the Federal Security Service would disband its elite Alpha commando units or force officers to retire, the Interfax news agency reported.

75.   He argues that he alone can unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who once served under him in an elite commando unit.

76.   He left his commando unit in November and enrolled in college to study political science.

77.   He also said he had turned down offers by foreign countries to send commando units to rescue the hostages.

78.   He returned to Israel to distinguish himself in an army commando unit.

79.   He is also head of the paramilitary Saddam Fedayeen commando units.

80.   He trained and led commando units, doing convoy service on the dangerous Murmansk run.