51. Turkey said its jets targeted a Kurdish rebel base inside Iraq and that military casualties claimed by Iran verified intelligence reports that Iranian officers were training the rebels. 52. Turkey said the buffer zone was designed to prevent hit-and-run attacks against Turkish targets by Turkish Kurds operating from bases inside northern Iraq. 53. Foreign Minister Ehud Barak vowed to pursue operations against Hezbollah bases inside Lebanon until the Beirut government understands it must clamp down on the Iranian-backed guerrillas. 54. India says the NLFT and the ATTF operate out of well-entrenched bases inside Bangladesh to carry out hit-and-run guerrilla strikes in Tripura. 55. Iran has in the past hit rebel bases inside Iraq in retaliation for cross-border attacks by the Mujahedeen or armed Iranian Kurdish guerrillas. 56. Iranian warplanes Wednesday attacked rebel bases inside Iraq, the official Islamic republic news agency IRNA reported. 57. Iranian warplanes raided a Kurdish rebel base inside Iraqi territory earlier this month after accusing the guerrillas of launching cross-border attacks. 58. Iranian forces have several times in the past years launched air attacks or shelled Kurdish bases inside Iraq in retaliation for cross-border raids. 59. American servicemen unloaded their supplies at a rustic base inside a rubber plantation while their superiors confered with Philippine officers. 60. But their persistent shelling of Uganda from Zaire forced the Ugandan forces to cross the Zairean border to destroy the rebel bases inside Zaire. |