1.   The colonel led a successful raid against a rebel base.

2.   Also Sunday, Moscow claimed an important battlefield victory, saying its forces had captured part of the village of Tando, a key rebel base.

3.   A military spokesman, while not confirming the number, said the dead were guerrillas killed in an early morning attack on a rebel base.

4.   According to reports from Chechnya, fierce fighting raged on Thursday around the rebel base at Bamut, south of Grozny.

5.   But reporters who have visited rebel bases say their fighters include mainly young men from Chechnya, Dagestan and other parts of the predominantly Muslim Caucasus Mountains.

6.   Large-scale bombing raids or even a ground assault against rebel bases in Chechnya might deprive the militants of their havens near Dagestan.

7.   On Monday, Viktor Kazantsev, commander of the north Caucasus military district, told reporters that airstrikes had hit rebel bases in Dagestan and in Chechnya.

8.   Russian planes struck a rebel base on Friday near the Chechen town of Kenkhi, located near the border with Dagastan.

9.   Russian planes struck a rebel base on Friday near the Chechen town of Kenkhi, located near the border with Dagestan.

10.   The rebels were especially concerned about the overflights, which they saw as provocative efforts to identify rebel bases and pinpoint the whereabouts of commanders.