Military analysts here characterized the attack as an almost perfect operation and one of the most damaging guerrilla raids in the seven-year-old war.

It was one of the worst defeats for the army in the seven-year-old war.

The port was captured by Iran in 1986 in its seven-year-old war with Iraq.

Its forces had shot down a contra resupply plane, a rare event in the seven-year-old Nicaraguan war.

The offensive was the largest in the seven-year-old war against the Sandinista Government, the spokesman said.

Some officials said privately that they suspected Iraq was trying to drag the United States into the seven-year-old war.

The episode served to highlight two of Baghdad's many concerns in its seven-year-old war with Iran.

The seven-year-old war between Iran and Iraq has made the meeting tense.

Last weekend, Liberia's seven-year-old civil war suddenly exploded again, this time with a fury nobody had foreseen.

The rebels said the raid was the beginning of a new offensive in their seven-year-old war.