1.   Before the assault, Moscow said the rebels had held four Chechen policemen hostage, a charge denied by the rebels and independent witnesses.

2.   Before the Russian assault, Moscow said the rebels had held four Chechen policemen hostage, a charge denied by the rebels and independent witnesses.

3.   A man who briefly took a policeman hostage then shot and wounded himself in the head last week got major television coverage.

4.   Armed men robbed a bank in Istanbul early Wednesday, stealing money and briefly taking a policeman hostage, reports said.

5.   However, Assistant Police Commander Arnoldo Pastan said students still were holding four policemen hostage.

6.   The attackers, who often take Russian policemen hostage, disappear back into Chechnya quickly and are rarely caught.

7.   The conflict was resolved Friday when the prisoners were exchanged for the three policemen held hostage.

8.   They took three policemen hostage and demanded the release of three comrades detained earlier in the week.

9.   Troops on Tuesday stormed a security camp and killed two people who had taken Indian policemen hostage and killed six officers.

10.   In Moscow, ITAR-TASS press agency said that the secessionist guerrillas had taken five Chechen policeman hostage.