1.   Hezbollah, or Party of God, claimed responsibility for the dawn assault.

2.   The dawn assault apparently caught Serbs by surprise on a major Orthodox religious holiday.

3.   The dawn assault caught Serbs off guard on a major Orthodox religious holiday.

4.   His remarks came amid reports that commandos who staged a dawn assault on the hospital in the southern Russian town of Budennovsk were acting on their own initiative.

5.   The radio said a policeman and a civilian had died in the dawn assault.

6.   There was also confusion over who ordered the failed dawn assault.