1.   American officials said this week that surveillance flights off the coast of Somalia had been increased to detect any al-Qaida fighters fleeing Afghanistan by ship.

2.   Arrieta said surveillance flights were continuing over the region.

3.   At the Wednesday meeting in Beijing, the Chinese are expected to demand an end to the surveillance flights, even though they take place over international waters.

4.   Beijing was surprised that the U.S. military had resumed surveillance flights off the coast of China, Li said.

5.   Beijing has demanded an end to the routine surveillance flights, which have been targeted for more aggressive buzzing and shadowing operations by Chinese fighters in recent months.

6.   Both the surveillance flights off the Chinese coast and the air interdiction operations to fight drug traffickers have been suspended in the wake of the two incidents.

7.   Bush also said that he had not yet decided whether to resume drug surveillance flights over Peru, a joint program of the Peruvian Air Force and the CIA.

8.   China continued to demand an apology for the incident and a cessation of U.S. surveillance flights in international airspace near its coast.

9.   Colombia has long been a major source of cocaine and other drugs reaching the United States, prompting the United States surveillance flights in the region.

10.   Control of the surveillance flights will be transferred from the CIA to another government agency, officials said.