1.   And Sri Lanka, a small island nation, has spent heavily on new military hardware this year to counter a rebel offensive.

2.   Army sources said reinforcements had been rushed too late to the beleaguered military camps following at least three recent rebel offensives.

3.   Even with NATO essentially bombing the way forward into Kosovo, the rebel offensive here has only pushed through a few miles in two weeks.

4.   For nearly a year, Juba has been isolated by the latest series of rebel offensives.

5.   In control of most of the former Yugoslav army after the breakup, Milosevic used the troops to support and to spearhead rebel Serb offensives across Bosnia and Croatia.

6.   It has also accused Uganda of providing the artillery and armor for a rebel offensive last October.

7.   Of late, a revived Colombian military has done just that, checking rebel offensives and winning several skirmishes.

8.   Rebel offensives have effectively cut the main road from Uganda to Goma, over which tons of food and other supplies were shipped.

9.   The army is bracing itself for a rebel offensive expected before national parliamentary elections to be held by November.

10.   The group was also blamed for two car-bomb blasts in Madrid and the northern city of Soria, setting off fears of a new rebel offensive.