61.   They said the PKK had concentrated more on organising itself in neighbouring northern Iraq and launching attacks against Turkish targets from rear bases there.

62.   Turkish troops often venture into northern Iraq to attack PKK rebels, whom they accuse of using the neighboring country as rear base for attacking Turkish territory.

63.   Italy is considered by France to be a major rear base for Islamic terrorism.

64.   Newman was speaking by telephone from the US rear base at Kaposvar in south Hungary.

65.   Perry was due to return to Aviano at midday before heading for the Hungarian towns of Taszar and Kopasvar where the US contingent in Bosnia has rear bases.

66.   PKK fighters use the region as a rear base in their fight for an independent Kurdish homeland in Turkey.

67.   Russia has frequently criticised Georgia for harbouring Chechen guerrillas, accusing Tbilisi of allowing them to use the Pankisi Gorge as a rear base.

68.   Rwanda has long insisted that its troops are deployed in the DRC because of security threats posed by Rwandan rebels who have rear bases in the country.

69.   Some camps in the Uvira regions served as rear bases for the rebels, and all the camps emptied as the fighting intensified.

70.   Strategically, Angola would be an ideal rear base for an attack on Matadi, in the same southwest Bas-Zaire province as Yema.