1.   For more than a week before the Inchon landing, the Allied forces used diversionary tactics by bombing nearby areas.

2.   Government forces used the situation as an excuse to perpetrate excesses against suspected rebels.

3.   Security forces are still using violence against opponents of the government.

4.   For the first time government forces used fighter-bombers to attack rebel positions.

5.   In April government forces used fighter bombers to attack guerrillas along the Thai border after rebels had launched an attack on troops based in Phaw Hta.

6.   And in the Gulf War, U.S. forces used powerful bombs in an attempt to kill Saddam Hussein, the president of Iraq.

7.   Another way to counter the Iraqi threat is to store equipment in the Persian Gulf area that American forces could use in a crisis.

8.   A senior NATO official told reporters in Banja Luka that the Krajisnik forces had used the guise of a rally to try and stage a coup against Plavsic.

9.   But the Philippine forces use outdated radios that the rebels can monitor and do not widely use night operations, which U.S. forces prefer.

10.   But the willingness of those states to allow U.S. forces to use their territory as bases for potential strikes underscored how isolated Saddam has become compared with previous confrontations.