41.   After a recent meeting with Department of Defense staffers, some journalists expressed public concern about the lack of a clear plan for providing access to the military campaign.

42.   Afghans in the area say that the military campaign is not the only battle the United States is fighting.

43.   After the Israeli military campaign in southern Lebanon last month, the annual ceremonies in this crossroads of the Shiite-dominated region carried a particular political charge.

44.   After the Russian military campaign started, Dolgalyov said that his captors tried to exchange him for Chechen prisoners.

45.   Air crashes and other mishaps have proved far more deadly to US forces than enemy fire during the four-month military campaign.

46.   Air strikes would not necessarily be relentless and they would be one element of a long-term military campaign that would use commando operations and support for the Northern Alliance.

47.   Alongside its support for the U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan, Russia is offering its oil fields as a secure alternative to dependence on the turbulent Persian Gulf.

48.   Britain is the only nation committed to joining the United States in a possible military campaign against Iraq.

49.   Bush has paid back Putin, endorsing for the first time the hard-hitting Russian military campaign against predominantly Muslim Chechen rebels in the restive Muslim province of Chechnya.

50.   But as planning for a possible military campaign proceeds, the State Department, Pentagon and CIA remain divided over which insurgents to back.