1.   President Bush has said Allied aircraft are ready to attack again if the need should arise.

2.   A. U.S. and allied aircraft have, for the past five years, been patrolling no-fly zones in northern and southern Iraq.

3.   Allied combat aircraft attacked missile site in the north.

4.   During the Gulf war, Iraqi anti-aircraft fire was almost wholly ineffective against allied aircraft and missiles.

5.   Either way, the American-led patrols consider aiming radar at allied aircraft to be a provocation and thus a reason to strike.

6.   He helped set up operations for locating and jamming Axis radar to reduce its effectiveness in pinpointing Allied aircraft during the Allied invasions of Italy and southern France.

7.   His boasts that he would take on the allied aircraft had to be reversed in light of the American armada of ships and bombers converging on the gulf region.

8.   NATO and Pentagon officials confirmed that allied aircraft have struck a military compound in Istok on several occasions, including Friday.

9.   NATO countries granted blanket over flight clearance for allied aircraft involved in the terrorism fight.

10.   NATO still rejects the notion that Allied aircraft could have been responsible for machine-gunning some of those slaughtered.