1.   Ever since four days of U.S. and British airstrikes against Iraq last December, the administration has openly stepped up contacts with Iraqi opposition leaders.

2.   U.S. and British airstrikes put an end to all relief efforts.

3.   A weekly ferry service from Dubai to the southern Iraqi port of Umm al-Qasr was suspended Saturday because of the U.S. and British airstrikes on Iraq.

4.   According to Yemeni officials, the kidnappers demanded the release of two Islamic Jihad leaders and said they were retaliating for recent U.S. and British airstrikes on Iraq.

5.   After the UNSCOM inspectors were withdrawn in December, shortly before U.S. and British airstrikes on Iraq, the Baghdad government said they would never be allowed to return.

6.   But inspectors left Iraq on the eve of U.S. and British airstrikes in mid-December and they have been banned from returning.

7.   Butler pulled UNSCOM inspectors out of Iraq in mid-December on the eve of U.S. and British airstrikes, and Baghdad has banned them from returning.

8.   Chemical and biological samples were left behind when U.N. weapons inspectors pulled out of Iraq in mid-December, on the eve of U.S. and British airstrikes.

9.   China condemned U.S. and British airstrikes on Iraq, saying Thursday that they only escalated tensions.

10.   During the last Iraqi crisis, in February, the secretary-general flew to Baghdad and secured an agreement to allow unfettered weapons inspections that averted U.S. and British airstrikes.