He had claimed the bounty that had been offered for his arrest; guerrillas who surrendered could claim this bounty.

The guerrillas claimed that the deputies had been killed by crossfire during an attack by an "unidentified military group."

Kurdish guerrillas yesterday claimed control of five northern towns.

Chechnya's guerrillas did not immediately claim responsibility for today's attack, as they did for the three previous helicopter crashes.

A8 Iraqi troops on the Turkish border dug in to assert authority over an area that Kurdish guerrillas had claimed.

There are no Western-protected safe havens on the Iran-Iraq border, where Kurdish guerrillas claim to occupy small pockets of territory.

In a statement on Sept. 28 the guerrillas claimed to have held the city for a brief period.

A shipment of tires had just arrived that morning from Pakistan, traveling through areas that the guerrillas had claimed were cut off.

Mystery also surrounded the status of a British 'military adviser' whom the guerrillas at one point claimed to hold captive.

Kabul has been hit almost daily by rocket attacks since late June, and Islamic guerrillas have claimed responsibility for some of the attacks.