1.   The rebels claimed that trains carrying soldiers are a legitimate target.

2.   The rebels claimed that they had acted to rid the country of the inefficiency, incompetence and corruption of which, they said, the Aquino government was guilty.

3.   In June rebels claimed to have formed a provisional government and, for the first time, they used rockets during one of their attacks.

4.   But rebels claimed to still have a strong presence there, and threatened to advance farther into the city.

5.   But the rebels claim to have taken him prisoner.

6.   By midday Saturday, The Associated Press reported, rebels claimed to have retaken all but the eastern outskirts of the town.

7.   Chechen rebels claim to have taken the nine policemen prisoner and executed them after Moscow refused to turn over a Russian officer accused of killing a Chechen woman.

8.   On the roads traversing areas that rebels had claimed as theirs, the government controls all traffic and is running convoys of soldiers.

9.   Russian troops captured it weeks ago, but Chechen rebels claimed on Monday that they have taken part of it back.

10.   The NATO planes appeared to strike the Kosovo border town of Gorozhupe, which the Kosovar Albanian rebels claim to occupy in part.