1.   In militant strongholds like Jenin in the West Bank and Gaza City, one or two arrests have met a violent response.

2.   The heaviest fighting raged in the Jenin refugee camp, a militant stronghold where hundreds of gunmen were holed up.

3.   The political fireworks exploded as Israel continued to back away from Palestinian militant strongholds in the Gaza Strip.

4.   Witnesses said body parts were strewn among the road in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, an Islamic militant stronghold in Gaza City.

5.   Palestinian gunmen in the Jenin camp, long a militant stronghold, held off Israeli forces for eight days, waging gunbattles and setting booby traps.

6.   Algerian security forces killed five suspected Islamic extremists in an assault on a militant stronghold in an eastern mountainous region, newspapers reported Tuesday.

7.   Arafat even skips one stop, the devastated Jenin refugee camp, at the last minute for fear of being heckled in the militant stronghold.

8.   But in recent months, the government has succeeded in confining the trouble to a few militant strongholds, though hit-and-run attacks still occur every few days.

9.   But despite seizing strategic positions and capturing a major militant stronghold, the Russians are suffering heavy losses.

10.   But recently, the insurgency has been confined to a few militant strongholds in southern Egypt.