21.   French police last swooped on Islamic groups in August, following the murder in Algeria, claimed by the GIA, of three French officials.

22.   However after the march, police swooped in to arrest Hildalgo Valero, an army colonel that Chavez recently forced into retirement.

23.   Northern Ireland police swooped on Protestant loyalist hideouts in west and north Belfast early Monday, making a large but unspecified number of arrests, sources said.

24.   On Wednesday he narrowly evaded capture when police, alerted by a man picking mushrooms, swooped on an isolated camp in a forest.

25.   Police quickly swooped down on the protestors and quickly dragged them to awaiting vans.

26.   Police swooped on shops throughout the notorious Mongkok district, the copycat capital of Hong Kong.

27.   Police swooped on the headquarters of the Italian Football Federation on Friday after opening an enquiry into the activities of its president, Antonio Matarrese.

28.   Police swooped on the homes of suspected paedophiles throughout Italy early Friday, arresting five people and seizing vast quantities of computer related pornographic material.

29.   Police swooped on the lonely station only days after the Tokyo attack, taking the sheep carcases and soil samples for analysis.

30.   Police swooped before dawn in Gaza City in a continuing crackdown on the Moslem fundamentalists.