1.   Although Russian troops control the major cities, the rebels have continued to stage guerrilla attacks, and peace talks have broken down.

2.   At the same time the workers know that the military or the police could fault them because the rebels had chosen the hospital building to stage their attack.

3.   A gunbattle erupted as Israeli forces searched houses looking for militants who had staged attacks on Israelis, including the assassination last week of a cabinet minister.

4.   But given the location, the attack was probably staged by UNITA rebels.

5.   But in Israel and in Spain, where Basque extremists have been staging attacks for decades, terrorism has had no effect on the economy.

6.   But officials say a few hundred rebels remain holed up in mountain and jungle areas and have staged sporadic attacks.

7.   But the militia leaders began using the refugee camps in Zaire as bases for recruiting and for staging new attacks against Tutsi both in Rwanda and in Zaire itself.

8.   Experts said the added challenge is that Hamas guerrillas are able to blend into the crowd and are willing to stage suicide attacks.

9.   Even the government concedes that the territory has been used to stage attacks elsewhere, hide kidnap victims and grow coca.

10.   He said that if the attack had been staged by a splinter group, the damage on the peace talks would be less.