1.   Bosnian Croats and Muslims have been trying to cut the corridor, and the Serb attack against Vidovice evidently was aimed at broadening the corridor and making it safer.

2.   Bosnian Croats and Muslims have been trying to cut the corridor, which links Bosnian and Croatian Serb holdings with Serbia proper.

3.   Cutting the corridor has been a key aim of anti-Serb forces seeking to isolate the Bosnian Serbs.

4.   Cutting the corridor has been a key aim of Muslim-led government forces seeking to isolate the Bosnian Serbs.

5.   Fighting was reported around Trnovo, a Serb-held town south of Sarajevo that would help the government cut a corridor to Gorazde.

6.   If government and allied Croat troops cut the corridor, that would weaken Serbs in western Bosnia and neighboring Serb-held parts of Croatia.

7.   If the corridor is cut, a large Serb-held area in western Croatia and Bosnia would be surrounded.

8.   If the so-called Posavina corridor were cut, Serbs in western Bosnia and in Serb-held parts of Croatia would be severely weakened.

9.   If they managed to cut the corridor, they would completely cut off Serb-held territory centered on Banja Luka in the northwest.

10.   If the corridor were cut, it would severely weaken Serbs in Croatia and in Bosnia.