1.   The missiles can be fired only if the operator types in a six-digit code.

2.   US Senate armed services committee chairman Sam Nunn asked the Defence Department to conduct a further investigation, citing the statement in the ABC broadcast by Adml.

3.   Although the Western alliance has stopped threatening air strikes against the Serbs, NATO jet fighters are authorized to defend themselves on the spot if anti-aircraft missiles are fired.

4.   Although Baghdad said Friday it would resume attacks if the patrols continued, it has not repeated that condition, and the Pentagon said no more missiles were fired.

5.   Although it was not designed as a combat system, the Predator has fired missiles at a-Qaida and Taliban targets.

6.   Among the enemies of America and the West are men who do not fire missiles, but who hijack aircraft full of fuel and fly them into crowded buildings.

7.   An Iraqi television news program today said Iraq fired three missiles at U.S. and allied planes over southern Iraq, a claim the Pentagon denied.

8.   And is that what the Los Angeles Times and the BBC would have said if the Palestinians had fired a missile into an Israeli apartment block?

9.   Are the Arabs really so cavalier about the prospect that Saddam might someday be able to fire off missiles loaded with biological and chemical weapons?

10.   At first, some Palestinians said helicopters had fired missiles at the shack, in a village called Al Fara.