31.  Mutinous elite forces battled regular army units Thursday, seizing a barracks and taking hostages.

32.  Recent news reports have alluded to plans to send an elite force to capture Karadzic, former leader of the Bosnian Serbs.

33.  Prabowo, a former commander of the elite force of Kopassus, was fired from the army last week for his involvement in the abduction of pro-democracy activists.

34.  Qusai has served as commander of the Special Security Apparatus, which oversees other security branches, and a supervisor of the elite Republican Guard forces.

35.  The arrested include a woman, a conscript and a former member of an elite military force.

36.  The elite force did not take an active combat role in the war, but supported the military in patrols, intelligence work and other tasks.

37.  The IRGC is an elite military force separate from the regular army.

38.  The hijack showdown Wednesday on an airport tarmac in northern Japan is the kind of situation that elite forces in other countries spend years training for.

39.  U.S. elite forces are training Filipino troops in counterterrorism techniques.

40.  FRANCE GIGN FORCE Large poster-style graphic outlining methods used by the elite GIGN gendarmerie force.