11.   Tensions built in a central village, with hundreds of armed Albanians dug in against feared attack.

12.   Troops with Kalashnikovs and armored vehicles took up strategic positions outside Moscow on Monday to protect the capital against feared Chechen terrorist attacks.

13.   Hundreds of volunteers from around the rebel Russian republic of Chechnya flooded into the capital Grozny Wednesday preparing to defend against a feared attack from Moscow at dawn Thursday.