1.   John Reid, a Labour defence spokesman, denounced it as disgusting.

2.   A defence ministry spokesman blamed the attack on troops loyal to renegade Prime Minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.

3.   National defence department spokesmen say they were safe and playing board games to pass the time inside the compound.

4.   The Australian Navy had detained eight foreign boats for alleged illegal fishing in Australian waters, a defence department spokesman said Friday.

5.   The crew member had been mistaken for someone involved in the anti-terrorist exercise, the defence spokesman said.

6.   For the Christian Union parties, defence spokesman Paul Breuer said the German stance was to support peace efforts in every way.

7.   Four other Moslem guerrillas were shot in separate gunbattles elsewhere in the northern state, a defence ministry spokesman said.

8.   French yachtsman Thierry Dubois has been rescued off a liferaft in the Southern Ocean, an Australian defence department spokesman said Thursday.

9.   Greek defence ministry spokesman Andreas Sourbis said searches were continuing for the missing co-pilot.

10.   He said the official defence ministry spokesman, Abdullah, who like many Afghans goes under only one name, flew to the western provincial capital Herat Sunday.