11.   Tommie listened in awe and shared their fear as aircrew described vicious head-on assaults by enemy fighters.

12.   Almost from the start of the battle, the allied troops met with stiff resistance from enemy fighters burrowed into mountainsides.

13.   A separate gun battle earlier on Thursday left three enemy fighters dead.

14.   After being dropped off by swift boat, they sat motionless for a while, adjusting to the darkness and listening for possible enemy fighters.

15.   British military officials said Friday that they believe substantial numbers of enemy fighters were in the area.

16.   Coalition forces killed three more enemy fighters following a gun battle during one of the cave-clearing projects, the Canadian Press news agency reported Thursday.

17.   Despite recent efforts to seal off the porous border, many enemy fighters are believed to have slipped across the moutain passes into Pakistan to regroup for future battles.

18.   During one of those missions on Sunday, U.S. commandos shot and killed a suspected enemy fighter near the town of Lwara in southeastern Afghanistan, King said.

19.   Franks said the firefights frequently were between coalition forces and small groups of a half-dozen or so enemy fighters.

20.   Gen. Tommy Franks, the commander of allied forces in Afghanistan, has said that coalition troops may recanvass territory to insure that enemy fighters have not reappeared.