31.   In just the past three weeks, the combined military branches have launched hundreds of sorties and cruise missiles against specific targets in Afghanistan, away from populated areas.

32.   Numbers for the other military branches were not available.

33.   The government will also replace the heads of the other military branches in coming days.

34.   The posts are reserved to four former commanders of the military branches and the police, one former Cabinet official and one former university rector.

35.   Today, there is no evidence of a split between the navy and other military branches.

36.   With the creation of the Defense Ministry in June, the heads of the three military branches lost their Cabinet-level status.

37.   Finnish Prime Minsiter Esko Aho has said that Finnish membership in the EU would not necessarily mean participation in its military branch, the Western European Union.

38.   Iliescu made the statement on the sidelines of a meeting of the Western European Union, effectively the military branch of the European Union.

39.   Israel on Thursday charged that the PA had failed to arrest figures identified as top leaders of the HAMAS and Islamic military branches.

40.   Although the group denies having a military branch, both British and Irish security officials say it has links to the INLA.