1.   For more than two weeks, they toured alliance territory and dutifully waited to interview senior officials.

2.   Here in alliance territory, she said, girls are allowed to attend separate high schools, she said.

3.   Still, to a Western visitor at least, a striking feature of alliance territory is that women seem to not exist.

4.   The official said the French position was that a Security Council resolution was needed when NATO deployed troops outside alliance territory.

5.   The only Afghan woman practicing medicine in the country works in alliance territory north of here.

6.   They struck on the Taliban side, but the shock wave they produced was felt three-quarters of a mile away inside alliance territory.

7.   As well, Pakistan was told that U.S. forces have been in opposition northern alliance territory for more than one week.

8.   But first and foremost there was a need for the respect of human rights as the alliance forces reclaimed territory held by the Taliban.

9.   In northern alliance territory, community leaders say, the focus is on remonstration and counselling.

10.   Moscow, though, can still be expected to voice strong doubts about expanding the alliance territory farther east.