1.  American fighter jets attacked antiaircraft batteries in northern Iraq in two skirmishes Monday as Baghdad continued its defiance of American and British control of its skies.

2.  At key military sites in Baghdad, antiaircraft batteries are poised for action, while in the Persian Gulf, the US presence grows.

3.  Attacking the suburbs of Beirut for the second day, Israeli planes fired on a Syrian antiaircraft battery.

4.  A result has been the destruction of a large number of antiaircraft batteries and surface-to-air missile sites throughout the country.

5.  British fighter jets Tuesday fired on Iraqi antiaircraft batteries after Iraq shot at the warplanes.

6.  But if U.S. warplanes on routine patrol are fired on by Iraqi antiaircraft batteries, warplanes from Kuwait are usually called in to retaliate.

7.  But two Pentagon spokesmen could not say whether US military jets or antiaircraft batteries were in position to shoot down the airliner.

8.  In Kabul, the pounding of antiaircraft batteries echoed across the shattered city Saturday as the Taliban poured fire on the high-flying aircraft.

9.  Several guns had been draped with flowers, one antiaircraft battery sprouting dark red roses from its barrels.

10.  The antiaircraft batteries, produced in the former Soviet Union and East Germany, are more capable than anything Air Force fighters faced in Iraq, analysts said.