1.   Although prosecutors did call several mid-level defense ministry officials as witnesses, none provided direct evidence linking Malan or his aides to the attack.

2.   A four-man U.S. military liaison team is assigned fulltime to the Albanian defense ministry.

3.   But the prime minister and his defense ministry failed to educate ordinary Hungarians on the issue, his critics say.

4.   European defense ministries were shocked by their own slow and cumbersome reaction and by technological gaps with the United States that the war over Kosovo revealed.

5.   Gen. Tommy Franks, chief of the U.S. Central Command, said a delegation from the Tajik defense ministry would be invited to observe a NATO exercise in Germany.

6.   In a recent shift, all military expenditures must be approved by the civilian-controlled defense ministry.

7.   In recent days rhetoric has highlighted that danger, as the North Korean defense ministry has issued threatening statements accusing South Korea of military provocation.

8.   In the defense ministry, initial indications were that Netanyahu intended to offer it to Yitzhak Mordechai, a recently retired general who was popular as Northern Commander.

9.   Karzai said rival tribal factions that field militias must be prepared to serve under a single defense ministry in Kabul.

10.   Kathryn Hayden, a Lockheed Martin spokeswoman in Fort Worth, said British Aerospace also brings its knowledge of contracting with the British defense ministry.