1.   Journalists were barred from entering the battlefield area, where an undetermined number of al-Qaida men were holed up in a desolate mountainside canyon.

2.   Journalists were kept away from the mountainside canyon where al-Qaida forces were holed up.

3.   Journalists were barred from entering the battlefield area where an undetermined number of al-Qaida men are holed up in a desolate mountainside canyon.

4.   Many al-Qaida men had left a mountainside canyon where they had been holding out for three days and were taking shelter in an adjacent forest.