81.   Tight security was also put in place in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, following intelligence reports that Islamic fundamentalists were preparing attacks.

82.   Israel sealed the Palestinian territories on Monday night for an indefinite period, citing reports that Islamic radicals were preparing anti-Israeli attacks.

83.   Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres defended the closure, saying it came after reports that militants were preparing anti-Israeli attacks.

84.   PLO chief Yasser Arafat warned Tuesday he would no longer allow the autonomous Gaza Strip to be used to prepare attacks on Israelis.

85.   Police chief Assaf Hefetz told Israeli radio the four had been preparing an attack.

86.   Police also found bomb-making equipment in the northern city of Lille and arrested three people allegedly preparing an attack there.

87.   Russian army, preparing general attack, keeps up sustained fire on positions west of Grozny.

88.   Shamanov said other groups of rebels were preparing attacks on Russian troops in the southeastern regions of Nozhai Yurt, Kurchaloi and Vedeno.

89.   Security services then dismantled an alleged al-Qaeda cell accused of preparing attacks against Morocco and on NATO ships in the Straits of Gibraltar.

90.   Separatists charge that the Russians are now preparing an attack on that front, aiming to push the rebels back to the mountains of southern Chechnya.