21.   Scores of people were detained Wednesday closer to the Zhongnanhai leadership compound in a protest over the arrests of scores of sect leaders.

22.   The crowd stretched about a kilometer north of Zhongnanhai, the leadership compound, and also on a street to the west.

23.   Two police officers, one wielding a wooden pole and the other using his fists, beat the man outside the tightly guarded leadership compound, Zhongnanhai.

24.   U.S. warplanes hit a suspected Taliban leadership compound early Thursday morning, defense officials said.

25.   U.S. warplanes struck a Taliban leadership compound southwest of Kandahar Wednesday night, Pentagon officials said.

26.   While far greater in numbers, the Tiananmen protesters never dared, as Falun Gong believers did, to surround the Zhongnanhai leadership compound.

27.   In the latest incident, US warplanes launched an attack Thursday on a sprawling al-Qaeda leadership compound and training camp in town of Zhawar, near Khost.

28.   Barshefsky was scheduled to meet later with Chinese President Jiang Zemin in the leadership compound of Zhongnanhai.

29.   US officials have confirmed that warplanes Thursday launched an attack on a sprawling al-Qaeda leadership compound and training camp in Paktia province.

30.   US officials have confirmed that warplanes launched an attack Thursday on the sprawling al-Qaeda leadership compound and training camp in eastern Paktia province.