Helicopters were used in some of the early morning raids in Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir and other cities.

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Then, in early morning raids Wednesday, some 250 Belgian police officers arrested 24 people in the Brussels area, she said.

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Reports that Saddam had been killed in early air raids seemed false, but doubts were raised about the authenticity of television appearances of characteristic defiance.

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Then, in early morning raids Wednesday, some 250 Belgian police officers arrested 24 people in the Brussels area, said Anja Bijnens at the state prosecutor's office in Brussels.

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About 40 officers from the Home Office immigration team carried out early-morning raids in Leicester, Loughborough, London and Peterborough.

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Then, in early-morning raids Wednesday, some 250 Belgian police officers arrested 24 people in the Brussels area, said Anja Bijnens at the state prosecutor's office in Brussels.

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When boatloads of immigrants began arriving on beaches near Gibraltar in the 1990s, it installed an early-warning radar system based on one that Israel developed to stop seaborne Palestinian guerrilla raids.

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