71.  The reports also refuted claims by Iraqi officials that the country had only one operational civilian plane at its disposal.

72.  The U.S. law was passed after Cuban MiG fighters shot down two civilian planes piloted by Miami-based exiles in February.

73.  The team arrived in Miami on a charter flight from Havana on Saturday, the same day Cuban MiGs downed two American civilian planes off the Cuban coast.

74.  The UNITA rebel group has in the past shot down civilian planes.

75.  The Uzbek state air company said Wednesday that the country had halted flights of all civilian planes over Afghan territory for security reasons.

76.  The UNITA rebel group which is fighting a civil war with the government has in the past shot down civilian planes.

77.  They have not since attacked civilian planes.

78.  U.S. and Cuban officials on Wednesday began their highest-level talks since the February downing of two civilian U.S. planes sent relations between the two countries into a crisis.

79.  UNITA rebels have targeted civilian planes they suspect of ferrying supplies to government troops.

80.  UNITA rebels in the past have targeted civilian planes they suspect of ferrying supplies to government troops.