1.  But reports later in the day indicated Croat forces had continued their advance, putting troops close to a key Serb supply road.

2.  Mazar-e-Sharif is strategically important because it straddles a key supply route for Taliban forces in the area.

3.  The conquest gave the Taliban a large military depot and severed a key supply route from Central Asian nations to their anti-Taliban allies in northern Afghanistan.

4.  The Serbs have attacked the enclave with tanks and heavy weapons, and their forces took control of a key supply route running east and west.

5.  Opposition officials said anti-Taliban fighters advancing on the city faced stiff resistance from reinforced Taliban, but still managed to cut a key supply road.

6.  A Croat cut-off of the key supply route to Knin could also position Croatia to attack that rebel Serb stronghold.

7.  Advancing Croat forces have captured two strategic towns in western Bosnia and severed a key Serb supply artery.

8.  Analysts said that, longer term, a key fundamental supply change is expected to pressure the complex to the downside.

9.  Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic denied the government had severed any key Serb supply routes on Friday.

10.  Bosnian Serb military sources claimed Tuesday that government troops had failed in their attempt to take a key supply road south of Sarajevo.