21.   A defence ministry spokesman in Kabul said the current offensive was aimed at dispersing concentrations of enemy troops in the continuing campaign to protect Kabul from invasion.

22.   Bosnian Serb military sources in Pale said the Croatian offensive was aimed at cutting Serb access to the Adriatic.

23.   Defence sources said the military offensive was aimed at taking out LTTE mortar gun positions which had been used in recent weeks to attack the airfield at Palaly.

24.   The prisoners said that the Ugandan offensive was aimed at securing a buffer zone in southern Sudan, the paper added.

25.   Mohammad Ali Azizi, the Afghan consul in Mashhad in the northeastern Khorasan province, said Saturday that the offensive was aimed at recapturing Herat.

26.   The army offensive was apparently aimed at pushing LTTE anti-aircraft gunners away from their positions near the main Palaly army and airforce base.