21.  The Lebanese army said in a statement that its troops spotted the raiding party, fired flares and then opened up with machine guns.

22.  The militants fired on the raiding party, killing Police Maj. Gen. Rifaat Anwar, the sources said, insisting on anonymity.

23.  The raiding party consisted of mostly women and they came in four tractors generally used by farmers in the rice-growing area.

24.  The raiding party also seized machines used to make the cigarettes.

25.  The raiding party started shooting after it came under fire from Moussali, who was alone, a department statement said.

26.  The State Security Department said in a statement that Moussali opened fire on its agents from a pistol and that the raiding party returned fire, killing him.

27.  They accused Qadir of sending his raiding party into Ghani Kiel because most of the residents are loyal to a rival warlord, Haji Zaman Khan.

28.  A police official said the armed raiding party boarded the ship after the captain of the Maersk Dubai refused to dock his ship at the request of Canadian authorities.

29.  The raiding party, who believed the compounds were being used al-Qaeda, were surprised to discover that the armed men inside were Afghan.

30.  Syed Rahman said a handful of the Africans turned aggressive and verbally abused the raiding party.