31.   Under Israeli tank fire, army bulldozers razed orange groves outside the Palestinian town of Beit Hanoun, and Israeli troops built fortified positions.

32.   Chechen separatists for their part have adopted a tactic of waiting until nightfall to attack fortified Russian positions.

33.   Journalists said the forces fleeing their fortified frontline positions north of Qarabagh as the Taliban advanced left behind bodies and burning tanks.

34.   The nuclear equipment had been dismantled, but the fortified positions remain, the agency reported.