TASK DEFINITION: You are given a paragraph, with numbered sentences, and a question. Write the numbers of the sentences needed to answer the given question. Separate multiple sentence numbers with a comma (", "). E.g. "1, 2" would be the correct response if Sent 1 and Sent 2 are needed to answer the given question (do not include sentences that contain no information that is necessary to answer the question). Sort the sentence numbers in an increasing order (i.e., '1, 2', instead of '2, 1'). Your answer should not contain anything than the sentence numbers separated by a comma (e.g. '1, 2, 3, 4'). The given question requires more than one sentence to answer. So, your answer must contain at least one comma (", ").
PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: The troops, hearing the reports of the gun, came rushing out to see what was the matter.
Sent 2: They found that the mule had passed in his chips, and when they learned the cause they all agreed that I had served him just right.
Sent 3: Taking the saddle and bridle from the dead body, I proceeded into the post and delivered the dispatches to Captain Parker.
Sent 4: I then went over to Dick Curtis' house, which was headquarters for the scouts, and there put in several hours of solid sleep.
Sent 5: During the day General Hazen returned from Fort Harker, and he also had some important dispatches to send to General Sheridan.
Sent 6: I was feeling quite elated over my big ride; and seeing that I was getting the best of the other scouts in regard to making a record, I volunteered to carry General Hazen's dispatches to Fort Hays.
Sent 7: The General accepted my services, although he thought it was unnecessary for me to kill myself.
Sent 8: I told him that I had business at Fort Hays, and wished to go there anyway, and it would make no difference to the other scouts, for none of them appeared willing to undertake the trip.
Question: Why did the general had to accept my services ?.

SOLUTION: 7, 8.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: The world can be divided into three climate zones.
Sent 2: The first climate zone is the polar zone.
Sent 3: As it sounds, the polar zone is near earths poles.
Sent 4: The polar zone has very long and cold winters.
Sent 5: Brrr!!!!
Sent 6: Near the equator is the tropical zone.
Sent 7: The tropical zone is known for being hot and wet.
Sent 8: Between these two zones is the temperate zone.
Sent 9: Temperatures there tend to be mild.
Sent 10: Its not too hot and not too cold.
Sent 11: You might expect places near the equator to be hot and wet.
Sent 12: Thats not always the case.
Sent 13: Sometimes there are other factors at work.
Sent 14: These factors can affect the local climate type or a region.
Sent 15: Oceans and mountain ranges can have a major impact.
Sent 16: They can greatly influence the climate of an area.
Sent 17: Many factors influence an areas climate.
Question: What is the temperate zone?.

SOLUTION: 8, 9.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: Even after Bin Ladin's departure from the area, CIA officers hoped he might return, seeing the camp as a magnet that could draw him for as long as it was still set up.
Sent 2: The military maintained readiness for another strike opportunity.
Sent 3: On March 7, 1999, Clarke called a UAE official to express his concerns about possible associations between Emirati officials and Bin Ladin.
Sent 4: Clarke later wrote in a memorandum of this conversation that the call had been approved at an interagency meeting and cleared with the CIA.
Sent 5: When the former Bin Ladin unit chief found out about Clarke's call, he questioned CIA officials, who denied having given such a clearance.
Sent 6: Imagery confirmed that less than a week after Clarke's phone call the camp was hurriedly dismantled, and the site was deserted.
Sent 7: CIA officers, including Deputy Director for Operations Pavitt, were irate."Sent 8: Mike" thought the dismantling of the camp erased a possible site for targeting Bin Ladin.
Sent 9: The United Arab Emirates was becoming both a valued counterterrorism ally of the United States and a persistent counterterrorism problem.
Sent 10: From 1999 through early 2001, the United States, and President Clinton personally, pressed the UAE, one of the Taliban's only travel and financial outlets to the outside world, to break off its ties and enforce sanctions, especially those relating to flights to and from Afghanistan.
Sent 11: These efforts achieved little before 9/11.
Sent 12: In July 1999, UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hamdan bin Zayid threatened to break relations with the Taliban over Bin Ladin.
Sent 13: The Taliban did not take him seriously, however.
Sent 14: Bin Zayid later told an American diploRESPONSES TO AL QAEDA'S INITIAL ASSAULTS 139 mat that the UAE valued its relations with the Taliban because the Afghan radicals offered a counterbalance to "Iranian dangers" in the region, but he also noted that the UAE did not want to upset the United States.
Question: Why were CIA officers, including Deputy Director for Operations Pavitt angry?.

SOLUTION:
1, 6, 7, 8.