91.  Netanyahu relented and offered Sharon a new infrastructure super-ministry which the former defence minister has yet to accept.

92.  Mestiri met former defence minister Ahmad Shah Masood, a strongman in the presidential camp, Saturday and discussed the Talibans, sources said.

93.  Mouillot has also been associated politically with former defence minister Philippe Leotard, head of the UDF.

94.  Police officials said the soldiers arrested Wednesday were members of a unit that provided security to former junior defence minister Anurudha Ratwatte.

95.  Rehn, a former Finnish defence minister, said she did not think the November dates were set in stone.

96.  Saleh asked his deputy and former defence minister Abderabbo Mansur to supervise the shake-up during a cabinet meeting in Aden on Wednesday, the agency said.

97.  Several MPs joined the show of strength, including former defence minister Ariel Sharon of the opposition Likud Party.

98.  Sharon, a former defence minister, has called on Peres to set up a national salvation government to confront the wave of terror.

99.  Sharon, former defence minister, heads the hawkish wing within the Likud party of new Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

100.  Steiner took over the top UN post in Kosovo after his predecessor, former Danish defence minister Hans Haekkerup, left the mission late last year.