11.   One of his closest associates, Ayman al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian-born doctor, also appeared on the tape.

12.   The sessions acquired an additional whiff of illegality because Taubman concealed them from his closest associates.

13.   These are experiences that Arafat and his closest associates, in exile for so many years, did not have.

14.   Yeltsin has so far shown no indication that he agrees with his closest associate.

15.   Another official noted Osama bin Laden is known for closely guarding information about future terrorist attacks, even among his closest associates.

16.   But hard-liners, who control the judiciary and security forces, have either barred nearly all his closest associates from politics or arrested them.

17.   But almost five years ago, he triggered the worst bloodshed in Europe since World War II, according to his closest associate at that time, Borisav Jovic.

18.   But they refused to allow anyone but her closest associates to visit her, and apparently have cut her telephone line.

19.   Gorbachev has invited his closest associates and friends to a small gathering at his Moscow apartment this weekend.

20.   He is apparently being replaced by his former closest associate in the military junta, Brigadier Julius Maada Bio.