1.   American soldiers have begun entering cave complexes in the Shahi-Kot region south of Jalalabad, finding mortars, rifles and rocket-propelled grenades.

2.   Anti-Taliban commanders near the fortified Tora Bora cave complex in eastern Afghanistan said they were preparing for a major ground assault.

3.   But officials said the key to destroying Taliban and al-Qaida fighters and material hidden in deep cave complexes is the more precise information on targets.

4.   Civilians might have been killed in the attacks, but only because they were in or near the cave complexes, he said.

5.   For the first time, warplanes dropped bombs designed to send suffocating blasts through cave complexes, military officials said.

6.   He said the military had, thus far, the least-significant coordination with opposition fighters in the east, around Jalalabad and the cave complexes.

7.   North of Kandahar, US warplanes struck at cave complexes and suspected ammunition dumps, resuming a lull in bombing since the attack on the column.

8.   Rosa did not say whether there was resistance entering the cave complex, and he declined to offer further details on what was found.

9.   Reporters reached one cave complex Tuesday, finding a man-made redoubt rather than a natural cavern.

10.   Rosenblum speculates about the significance of the rocks to prehistoric Chinese who lived in cave complexes that must have seemed endless.