1.   GIANT US attack aircraft were heading towards Somalia to help UN forces resist Somali gunmen threatening to wreck peacekeeping operations.

2.   Annan said that large scale Israeli military operations using tanks, ground troops and attack aircraft were causing large-scale loss of life in refugee camps.

3.   Britain increased its contingent of Harrier ground attack aircraft at the NATO airbase in Italy from four to eight.

4.   It currently maintains that only air patrols are flown from Kuwait, not attack aircraft.

5.   NATO bombed the runways at the Udbina airfield in November but spared the Serbian attack aircraft taking off from there at the insistence of U.N. commanders.

6.   No attack aircraft roared off to patrol Iraq.

7.   Officials said that the field at Bagram is also being considered as a possible base for allied fighter and attack aircraft.

8.   Saudi restrictions on launching bombing missions from the kingdom have forced U.S. commanders to position attack aircraft in various gulf countries rather than at one major base.

9.   Some of the planned displays had to be scrubbed, including a flyover by Navy attack aircraft.

10.   The Saudis oppose the use of Saudi-based U.S. attack aircraft in any operation against Iraq.