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He had his house swept for bugs and his car searched for tracking devices.

Macpherson even had her house swept for bugs, she says, but nothing was found.

She changed her number several times and also had her house swept for surveillance devices, although none was found.

Acid house swept the nation, and a man dressed like Edward Scissorhands and sounding like a prototype Robbie Williams impersonating Alan Vega was surplus to requirements.

FROM her mud-brick house high on a slope in the northern province of Shaanxi, Liu Yingfang (pictured above) looks down on what remains of a neighbour's house swept away two years ago by the floodwaters of a mountain stream.

At dawn on Monday, security forces began a house-to-house sweep of the area, the Uzbek village of Nariman, demanding information about a Kyrgyz police official who was killed there this month.

Several smaller communities sustained substantial property damage, including houses swept away by streams and rivers.

He said the wind and rain had torn roofs from houses, swept away plantations, ripped trees from the earth and drowned livestock.

American military commanders have greatly stepped up the pace of house-to-house sweeps, in which hundreds of soldiers temporarily close off neighborhoods and then search each house for weapons or any hints of loyalty to Saddam Hussein.

Television footage showed houses swept away by swollen rivers and people on rooftops waving for help as the storm packing winds of 60 miles per hour dumped more than 13 inches of rain in about six hours.

A recent report by Human Rights Watch admonishes the Americans for excessive use of force in the town.Two full-scale military operations in the past week, codenamed Peninsula Strike and Desert Scorpion, sent thousands of troops on house-to-house sweeps that netted hundreds of detainees.

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