1. Israel said its commandos seized them before dawn on Thursday when they stormed a freighter in the Red Sea. 2. Cohen also disclosed that an Iraqi naval officer was on board the ship when it was seized by U.S. Navy SEAL commandos. 3. Cohen also disclosed that an Iraqi naval officer was on board the ship when it was seized by U.S. Navy SEAL commandoes. 4. French navy commandos seized the Rainbow Warrior II on Sunday shortly after the Greenpeace ship entered French waters off Mururoa Atoll, site of planned French nuclear tests. 5. Last week, Israeli naval commandos seized a cargo ship in the Red Sea that was carrying weapons including Katyusha rockets, anti-tank missiles and explosives. 6. Greenpeace demanded Saturday that France release its two ships and crew seized by commandos off Mururoa atoll as Australia called on France to exercise maximum restraint. 7. A Chechen separatist commando seized a wing of the pro-Moscow government building in central Grozny Thursday, commando members told AFP. 8. Environmental group Greenpeace spearheaded the anti-nuclear protest campaign but was hampered when French commandos seized their two vessels in the South Pacific. 9. It was the second time an Israeli commando seized a Moslem fundamentalist leader in Lebanon. 10. Kovalev negotiated directly with Chechen rebel chief Shamil Basayev in mid-June after his commando seized hostages in the southern town of Budennovsk. |