Land reform will be accelerated, peasants in rebel areas provided with land and new social programs begun.

A senior American commander said the military intended to take back Falluja and other rebel areas by year's end.

That caused such alarm that most Serbs in rebel areas left, human rights workers say.

Meanwhile, government forces continued artillery attacks on rebel areas.

They failed because each rebel area looked after itself and did not consider the city as a whole.

The aim of the operation was to isolate the rebel area near Qaboun.

Between 20 and 30 young men were mobilized from each village in suspected rebel areas.

Rebels are suspected due to their being fired from rebel controlled areas.

The rebel areas have been inaccessible to outsiders; life there a black hole.

The rebels regularly ambush the army, which has failed to establish a continuing presence in key rebel areas.