1.   But a command spokesman said Wednesday the group was traveling with suspected Al Qaeda or Taliban fighters and were therefore a legitimate target.

2.   The account contradicted earlier statements from a defense command spokesman and the incoming chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

3.   The defense command spokesman said that even if the planes had chased supersonically, they would have had to slow to subsonic speeds to fire their missiles.

4.   A command spokesman in Dushanbe said five rebels were killed in a clash Sunday on the Pyanj River, which demarcates the border with Afghanistan.

5.   Chechen rebels opened fire on Russian positions four times since Saturday, wounding five soldiers, a military command spokesman told Interfax.

6.   Chechen rebels opened fire on Russian positions four times since Saturday, wounding five soldiers, a military command spokesman said.

7.   Command spokesman Jim Coles said officials were trying to determine whether Cpl. Byun Yong Kwan intended to defect or crossed the border accidentally.

8.   Command spokesman Jim Coles said the seven-member team had returned from the daylong investigation at the clash site and was analyzing its findings.

9.   Federal troops were limited to regrouping, reconnaissance and other non-combat activities, a military command spokesman told ITAR-Tass.

10.   Indian guns engaged the aircraft in the Chhamb Sector, said Col. S.P.K. Singh, the northern command army spokesman.