1.   The sight of nearly a dozen newly pummeled villages, surrounded by concentric rings of tanks and wailing refugees, only reinforces that notion.

2.   However, Stufflebeem denied reports that U.S. bombs had mistakenly pummeled villages and wrongly killed civilians and anti-Taliban fighters near Tora Bora.

3.   Stufflebeem denied reports that U.S. bombs had mistakenly pummeled villages and wrongly killed civilians and anti-Taliban fighters near Tora Bora.

4.   While Kremlin mediators on Friday tried to arrange a meeting with Chechen rebel leader Dzhokhar Dudayev, Russian aircraft and artillery pummeled a village in southwestern Chechnya.