1.   Fifteen days later, while on convoy patrol over the North Sea, Sgt Smith was in another air fight.

2.   Before ending the air patrols over the city, the administration owes New Yorkers a thorough and compelling explanation.

3.   But that made the Israelis vulnerable to the sort of land mines and remotely detonated explosives that blew up two patrols over the last week.

4.   But the numbers of aircraft can be reduced and less emphasis placed on maintaining constant airborne patrols over Iraq.

5.   But with fighter patrols over Eastern cities, much work remained to be done.

6.   Combat jets flew patrols over cities.

7.   Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Monday that the American and British pilots who fly patrols over Iraq are coming under increasingly dangerous fire because of improved Iraqi air defenses.

8.   Defense officials say they have already stretched their resources to fly round-the-clock combat air patrols over New York and Washington as well as irregular missions over other metropolitan areas.

9.   Eight years after Saddam Hussein was evicted from Kuwait, the United States and Britain still patrol over much of Iraq from bases in the Persian Gulf and Turkey.

10.   Fighter jets are on combat patrol over the city every day.