1.   A senior security service officer had been machine-gunned a week earlier in Fayoum town as local tensions that dated from the previous year had flared up.

2.   Arafat is strong enough that he is unlikely to be replaced by new leadership even if Israel banished him, a senior Israeli security official said today.

3.   As three senior Palestinian security officials left a four-hour meeting at the Erez checkpoint between Israel and Gaza, Israeli troops fired at their convoy.

4.   As long as Arafat lives, senior Israeli security officials believe, only he has the political strength to negotiate seriously with Israel.

5.   Before he was appointed as senior security chief for Yeltsin, he was long the most articulate and best-known critic of the Chechen war.

6.   A senior Israeli security official said that Hezbollah, the Shiite Muslim militia based in Lebanon, was believed to be planning a sizable attack on Israeli border positions.

7.   A senior Israeli security official who oversees the protection unit resigned and another was suspended Wednesday as a result of the investigation.

8.   A senior Israeli security officer said Israel was becoming disturbed about the various layers of secret services that Arafat has established that report directly to him.

9.   A senior security force official in Belfast, however, insists that Roisin was not considered an IRA suspect then.

10.   A senior security official here acknowledged that Kmail killed the men.