1.   He also questioned whether an interview with the exile commando leader, Luis Posada Carriles, had taken place at all.

2.   Soysal was seized five months after Turkish commandos captured rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan in Kenya.

3.   Chechen commando leader Salman Raduyev says his men will start killing hostages unless Russia withdraws its troops from Chechnya, and threatens to reduce Kizlyar to ashes.

4.   Commando leader Muhammed Tokcan earlier ruled out dropping off the policeman fearing the ferry would be stormed.

5.   Commando leader Molki fled Italy in February while on leave for good conduct but was re-arrested in Spain, which sent him back to Rome.

6.   Turkish authorities earlier identified the commando leader as Muhammed Tokcan, an ethnic Abkhaz.

7.   Sources close to the mediating team told the daily the commando leaders were drawing up a list of certain comrades they want freed.

8.   Stepanenko did not specify how many rebels fled, nor whether commando leader Salman Raduyev was among them.

9.   Sources close to the mediating team told the daily the commando leaders were drawing up a list of their imprisoned comrades they want freed.

10.   The commando leader warned that next time his target could be Moscow -- if he can raise the necessary funds.