1.   Before this crisis, the Clinton administration had classified plans to use missile strikes or to dispatch commandos to snatch bin Laden.

2.   Commandoes have been dispatched to root them out.

3.   It enabled American forces to wage the war by carrying out air strikes and dispatching commandos with a limited numbers of conventional forces.

4.   That manhunt has rapidly expanded as rebel forces scored fast-paced victories across the country earlier this week and U.S. commandos were dispatched into the southern part of the country.

5.   In February, Special Air Service commandos were dispatched separately from Australia and New Zealand to the Gulf when further hostilities loomed.