1.   Many Kuwaitis own vegetable farms in the Abdelli area straddling the desert frontier, where the Kuwaitis have built a defensive trench to curb infiltrators.

2.   A stream of shells was fired at a Chechen defensive trench outside Serzhen Yurt.

3.   The order was seen by the rebels as the prelude to a Russian attack, and an AFP correspondent saw rebels using captured Russian troops to dig defensive trenches.

4.   Wiley added that Military Intelligence had studied the base for a year and its defensive trench system had been proof it was a military base.

5.   Memici is now ringed by a warren of Serb defensive trenches and minefields.