1.   Some suspected that the rebellion was backed and financed by the US.

2.   But he also took the opportunity to trade bitter accusations with former regional allies who have sent soldiers to back a rebellion against him.

3.   They also claimed that soldiers from Rwanda, which along with Uganda is backing the rebellion, carried out the attacks, a charge that Rwandan officials deny.

4.   Cairo also has accused Sudan of backing the rebellion by Islamic radicals in Egypt.

5.   Congolese leader Laurent Kabila was expected in Rwanda Monday on his first official visit to the country that backed his rebellion to oust former President Mobutu Sese Seko.

6.   Congolese leader Laurent Kabila arrived in Rwanda Monday on his first official visit to the country that backed his rebellion to oust former President Mobutu Sese Seko.

7.   Congolese President Laurent Kabila accuses Rwanda and Uganda of backing a rebellion against his government and of sending troops into various parts of the vast central African nation.

8.   Milosevic sent the Yugoslav army to back Serb rebellions in those former Yugoslav republics.

9.   Rwanda and Uganda say they are backing the rebellion because Kabila refused to clamp down on rebels in eastern Congo who were attacking both countries.

10.   Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, widely blamed for fomenting war in Croatia and Bosnia by backing Serb rebellions in both places, was swift to congratulate the Yugoslav team.