1.   The election was observed by groups from the United States, Japan, the Commonwealth and other South Asian countries.

2.   Researchers said they could hardly imagine a better group to observe.

3.   The group also observed recounts in Palm Beach and Broward counties, which conducted manual recounts after the election.

4.   The group observes its first anniversary today with leadership training sessions.

5.   Where the two groups observed the same objects, they agreed on the color.

6.   Yet it cloaks itself in the guise of education and avoids the requirements that other politically motivated groups must observe.

7.   Phil Wheaton, an Episcopal minister from Washington D.C., said the group had observed thousands of homeless as well as the Mexican Army using American military equipment.

8.   A larger group of short-term observes will be deployed four weeks before the vote.

9.   Abdel Halim Izzedine, an Islamic Jihad leader in Jenin, said his group would no longer observe the truce.

10.   All three groups are observing less-than-total cease-fires.