11.   Since the US bombing campaign ended last month, Iraq has repeatedly challenged American and British war planes patrolling the zones.

12.   The expanded zone is patrolled by U.S. and British warplanes with orders to shoot down any Iraqi craft that passes into the zone.

13.   The Israeli naval vessel, which was not damaged, was patrolling a zone near the Egyptian border when officers spied a suspicious boat and headed toward it.

14.   The jets, which patrol the zone from a base in Incirlik, Turkey, then counterattacked, the account said.

15.   The no-fly zone is patrolled by U.S., British and French planes.

16.   The two survive on the vegetables they grow and the water from their well, along with donations from the soldiers who patrol the zone.

17.   Throughout the intervening years, Washington and London have periodically used air strikes against radar, antiaircraft and command sites to protect the pilots patrolling the zones.

18.   U.S. pilots patrolling the zone reported that they flew unchallenged by Iraqi fighters or air-defense units.

19.   While Britain remains a solid ally in patrolling the zones, Prime Minister Tony Blair on Wednesday did call the bombing that disrupted the pipeline a mistake.

20.   Without military traffic cops, who have an unglamorous but vital job, the Abrams tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles that will patrol cease-fire zones go nowhere.