1.   Heavily armed Nigerian soldiers line the walls, stand guard outside the door and peer into the windows.

2.   Human rights observers have accused Nigerian soldiers of summarily executing people suspected of aiding the rebel forces.

3.   That could make it difficult to get unbiased assessments of the Nigerian soldiers, a State Department official said.

4.   The Nigerian soldiers said they had come in peace, the residents of this small village recalled.

5.   The Nigerian soldiers who guard this sleepy border town are ostensibly peacekeepers in a regional effort to end years of fighting in Liberia.

6.   A Human Rights Watch-Africa report earlier this year quoted Nigerian soldiers admitting they had killed and raped Ogonis.

7.   A Human Rights Watch-Africa report earlier this year quoted Nigerian soldiers admitting that they had killed and raped Ogonis in an effort to intimidate them.

8.   A regional peacekeeping force led by Nigerian soldiers has been deployed in Sierra Leone in an attempt to dislodge the junta, and economic sanctions have been imposed.

9.   A Nigerian soldier and a civilian were killed when rebels ambushed a vehicle north of the capital, peacekeeping officials said Thursday.

10.   An unknown number of civilians fled their homes as a result of the shooting, and began returning later Wednesday under escort by Nigerian soldiers.