11. He promised that the government would eventually retake the territory, but would settle for what he called containment until then. 12. In Pale, their stronghold southeast of Sarajevo, Serb military sources claimed that Serb forces had retaken most territory lost during the recent government offensive north of Sarajevo. 13. It was seen as an important move in the effort of clans native to the region to retake territory seized by Aidid to consolidate his control over southern Somalia. 14. Retaking the territory would cut off the only road that serves as a supply line for the government army north of Bihac. 15. Serb officials have claimed that the Muslim-led army is planning an offensive to retake territory from the Serbs. 16. Still, the Serbs, too, appeared interested buying time for their troops to retake territory in northwestern Bosnia that they recently lost to government and Croat forces. 17. That plan has made the Abkhazians nervous that Georgia might try to retake their territory. 18. The United Nations reported further advances by Bosnian Serbs trying to retake territory lost earlier this month in the Bihac pocket, in the extreme northwest of the republic. 19. Tudjman has previously threatened to retake the territory by force. 20. Under rain and artillery shells, Indian soldiers climbed mountains surrounding a key Himalayan peak Saturday hoping to retake the territory from Islamic guerillas, Indian field commanders said. |