1.   Castano was rumored to have been killed in a rebel raid on his headquarters in northern Colombia last month.

2.   The job would be hard enough in peacetime, and rebel raids behind Russian lines have severely complicated that task.

3.   Rebel raids and government counterattacks have claimed hundreds of lives in recent months, most of them unarmed civilians.

4.   Rebel raids of Dagestani villages were another reason.

5.   A police official said Lapitingan may have been killed for his role in the rebel raids.

6.   Basilan has been an Abu Sayyaf base, and Lamitan has been the target of rebel raids.

7.   Barely a week passes without a rebel raid on a jail where Hutus accused of genocide are held or an attack on a vehicle.

8.   Burundi charges Tanzanian authorities turn a blind eye to rebel raids from bases in Tanzania, a charge the country and the rebels deny.

9.   But rebel raids and mine explosions in supposedly Russian-held areas have inflicted daily casualties for months.

10.   But Troshev, the Russian commander, said his units suffered heavy casualties in the rebel raid.