41.   Six NATO warplanes attacked a munitions dump near the Bosnian Serb stronghold of Pale outside Sarajevo on Thursday.

42.   Swedish television said anti-tank rockets stolen last year from a munitions dump may have been used in the attack.

43.   Ten peacekeepers whose nationality was not given were seized at a checkpoint near Sarajevo and six at the Pale munitions dump targeted by NATO airstrikes.

44.   That was at Kamisiyah, an Iraqi munitions dump where US troops inadvertently destroyed chemical weapons on at least two occasions in the week after the Gulf War.

45.   The blast took place as soldiers were unloading a shipment of ammunition at a munitions dump in the western corner of the Presidential Palace, a defence official said.

46.   The abductions were in retaliation for NATO air raids last week on a munitions dump near Pale, the capital of the self-proclaimed Bosnian Serb republic.

47.   The Anatolie news agency reported Pamukova mayor Cevdet Keser saying most windows in the village were shattered by the blasts which also prevented firefighters reaching the munitions dump.

48.   The current crisis was sparked by NATO air raids last week on a Serb munitions dump near here.

49.   The hostage taking is aimed at deterring further NATO air strikes similar to those on a Serb munitions dump carried out by alliance war planes last Thursday and Friday.

50.   The Pentagon currently is investigating whether veterans are suffering from exposure to Iraqi chemical weapons inadvertently destroyed by US troops who demolished an Iraqi munition dump after the war.