Besides killing the only American adviser at the base, the rebels systematically burned and bombed every key office, intelligence file and barracks there.

The rebels have also bombed Drummond's coal trains.

About 70 people, many of them children, died in May after rebels bombed a military parade in Dagestan, also in southern Russia.

On Friday, the rebels bombed the main oil pipeline, the Cano-Limon, cutting off pumping of some 240,000 barrels a day of crude.

The rebels bombed the that pipeline 61 times this year and 64 times last year.

For example during the summer, the rebels bombed a central police station assinged to protect the Peruvian Congress.

Leftist rebels have bombed company trains that transport coal from the Pribbenow mine to the coast on 40 occasions in the eight years the company has operated here.

After a minor pilot defection enabled government forces to shoot down a rebel plane, the rebels bombed some targets.

Four civilians were killed and 13 wounded today when Communist rebels raided a village and bombed a police station, the military said.

Last year, rebels bombed the pipeline 64 times and started striking closer to home, at the wellheads.