91.   NATO insists the mission is not to disarm the Albanians, but to collect weapons voluntarily handed in.

92.   NATO officials in Macedonia, where a British-led mission is collecting weapons from ethnic Albanian rebels, said security was increased for the arms-gathering operation.

93.   NATO set up Operation Essential Harvest to collect weapons from ethnic Albanian rebels in Macedonia in hopes of preventing further bloodshed in that Balkan country.

94.   NATO troops resume collecting rebel weapons.

95.   On Thursday, Putin expressed support for the British-led mission to collect weapons from the rebels, but said he doubted it would succeed.

96.   Palestinians must collect illegal weapons, including mortars, and Israelis are not to use lethal weapons against Palestinian demonstrators.

97.   Powell told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that some NATO allies already have committed troops to help set up disarmament sites to collect weapons from ethnic Albanian militants.

98.   Saeed said Hekmatyar wants a police force established to collect the weapons in Kabul.

99.   Subsequently, NATO troops arrived to collect weapons from the insurgents who agreed to disband.

100.   The British soldier was killed just as Macedonian forces began pulling back from positions around sites where NATO will begin collecting weapons from the militants.