1.   After a suicide bombing in Haifa that killed eight people, four of them soldiers, Ariel Sharon vowed that Israel would continue with its military sweep.

2.   Poland, for instance, has historically been a pawn in repeated military sweeps of Teutonic and Slavic forces across Central Europe.

3.   The short-term security gains Israel has realized with its military sweep through the West Bank will not eradicate the threat of more suicide bombings.

4.   Yasser Arafat left Ramallah on Monday for the first time in more than five months, visiting three other West Bank cities ravaged in Israeli military sweeps.

5.   An inter-Palestinian security committee was formed Thursday to try to locate Abu Mahjan and persuade him to surrender to avert a military sweep into the camp.

6.   Chechen women have held regular protests outside local government offices in Chechnya to demand information about male relatives who they say have been missing since military sweeps.

7.   He had been arrested in Grozny in November, during a military sweep, and had reportedly tried to defend civilians whom federal troops were robbing.

8.   Israel completed a major military sweep through the West Bank several weeks ago, but the army continues the nearly daily raids in pursuit of suspected militants.

9.   Israel completed a major military sweep through the West Bank several weeks ago, but the army continues to carry out almost daily raids in pursuit of suspected militants.

10.   The foreign ministry released a statement Saturday saying that hundreds of residents in Mesker-Yurt have been detained in military sweeps and taken to undisclosed locations in Chechnya.