1.   At least three generals have been arrested on corruption charges since February.

2.   A spokesman for Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain, Alastair Campbell, said a number of Yugoslav generals and retired generals had been arrested.

3.   Garzon took the bold step of asking the British police to arrest the general after learning that he was in a London hospital recovering from minor back surgery.

4.   However, an Iranian source said Tuesday he had received a phone call from a relative of Rahimi saying the general had been arrested earlier in the day.

5.   Human rights groups celebrated last month when a retired general, Rito Alejo del Rio, was arrested.

6.   In February, the general was arrested and charged with protecting a major drug trafficker.

7.   The generals were arrested in the wake of additional testimony from a witness under protection in the United States as well as others in Mexico, the statement said.

8.   The old U.S.-Hong Kong extradition treaty works smoothly, presumably the reason the U.S. had that Thai general arrested in Hong Kong instead of in Thailand.

9.   Whether the general is arrested will depend mainly on a separate medical report from doctors sent to examine him by the high court.

10.   A general was arrested Tuesday for allegedly leaking bidding information and taking bribes in a widening scandal over the construction of air force ammunition dumps.