1.   Uncertainty surrounded the likely consequences of such a deployment, and no troops had been despatched to Somalia by the end of August.

2.   Because that deployment will include American troops, President Clinton is preparing for discussions with Congress, which has voted several times in opposition to such a deployment.

3.   Administration officials have said they do not want to send monitors until both sides end their attacks and endorse such a deployment.

4.   Clinton faces stiff congressional opposition to such a deployment.

5.   Or will Syria itself have to be bought off in order to accept such a deployment?

6.   Pentagon officials offer new details about such a deployment.

7.   Pentagon officials also warned that such a deployment would likely only provoke Milosevic to attack before it was completed.

8.   An undisclosed number of Jordanian troops left for Afghanistan on Sunday in the first such deployment by an Arab country, the army said.

9.   Israel opposes any international force, so such a deployment is highly unlikely anytime soon.

10.   Such a deployment would not require a United Nations Security Council resolution, Javier Solana said during a conference in Athens.