1.   A rescue bid has also been ruled out, on the ground that the terrain makes freeing the hostages without risk of injury or death all but impossible.

2.   That is the day before Lernout is to meet with creditors, the independent commissioners appointed to oversee the rescue bid and the court.

3.   The rescue bid would involve a flotilla of advanced gear.

4.   But the liquidators downplayed the rescue bid.

5.   Four of the tourists were killed during a rescue bid by Yemeni troops on the following day.

6.   Four of the Westerners died in a Yemeni army rescue bid a day later.

7.   How about some noise to add merriment to the rescue bid?

8.   The other nine were killed by the terrorists during an unsuccessful rescue bid by German police.

9.   While politicians wrangle about the price of a rescue bid, investors, industrialists and consumers worry about the cost of the crisis that precipitated it.

10.   Arafat cracked down heavily on HAMAS last month when it kidnapped a young Israeli soldier, who later died in a failed Israeli army rescue bid.