1.   Armed troops searched the hospital yesterday.

2.   Army leaders have said the troops are searching for drug smugglers, but local residents say they have seen armed rebel groups.

3.   Authorities acknowledged that British special forces troops searched a village on the border between southern Afghanistan and the Pakistani province of Balochistan.

4.   Allied planes shot them down, and allied troops were searching for the two pilots, he said.

5.   He said his troops no longer searched the vehicles for weapons.

6.   In fact, the VFW worked with McCain last year to get hardship duty pay for troops currently searching for American remains in Vietnam.

7.   Peacekeeping troops search cars and people moving along the main roads, but insurgents can also pass easily through the wooded hills.

8.   Reports circulated that American troops searching for bin Laden were preparing for a renewed search in Tora Bora.

9.   The few caves that troops have searched have yielded guns, ammunition, food and water, but no intelligence bonanzas, officials said.