It makes 115 trips per day when in operation, carrying up to 125 people each time.
Biswas said 53 poor and low-caste women were rounded up and sterilised in operations carried out by torchlight that left three bleeding profusely and led to one woman who was three months pregnant miscarrying.
Initially, the conflict was a medical success story, not only in terms of the low number of battle casualties but also the minimal burden of heat-related or infectious diseases, traditionally a major source of both morbidity and mortality for service personnel in operations carried out in testing environments.
Mr. Mugniyah was assassinated in Damascus in an operation carried out together with Israel's intelligence agency, Mossad.
"In every operation carried out by naval personnel, in every moment and in every situation, human rights are strictly protected in any circumstance, as established by Mexico's constitution," it read.
Two local employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross, kidnapped last week, were freed on Sunday in an operation carried out by officers of the pro-Moscow Chechen militia, officials said today.
Several senior aides and at least 45 other militants were killed in an operation carried out jointly by the air force and the anti-terrorism squad, according to Samir's statement.
The allegations of excessive force prompted the navy ministry to release a statement insisting that "in every operation carried out by navy personnel human rights are strictly respected".
The second, smaller-scale drug bust took place on Friday, when customs officers found a further 485 pounds of cocaine on board a Guyanese tugboat, in a joint operation carried out by France and the Joint Interagency Task Force South, a US agency specializing in multinational operations against drug trafficking.
In January 2003, his years of heavy drinking caught up with him and he was obliged to undergo a liver trans- plant in a 10-hour operation carried out in Newcastle.
