11.   But the comment implied that the government would again prevent any meeting with armed Islamic groups fighting to establish an Islamic state.

12.   Ethiopian forces exchanged fire with a Somali faction fighting to establish a state in Somali-populated eastern Ethiopia, U.N. officials said Wednesday.

13.   French television reported Wednesday that the Armed Islamic Group, fighting to establish an Islamic state, claimed responsibility for the killings.

14.   Garang, who says he is fighting to establish a democratic and united Sudan, has denounced the agreement as a sham.

15.   Garang, who says he is fighting to establish a democratic and united Sudan, denounced the agreement as a sham.

16.   Ismail said the suspects are devout, non-violent Muslims who were collecting donations for Muslim Chechen rebels fighting to establish an independent Islamic state.

17.   It is fighting to establish an autonomous state in southeastern Turkey.

18.   Police suspect the bombs were planted by the Armed Islamic Group, Algerian Muslim fundamentalist extremists fighting to establish an Islamic state in their homeland.

19.   Prabhakaran is leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam which is fighting to establish a Tamil state in northern and eastern Sri Lanka.

20.   Prabhakaran leads the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who are fighting to establish a Tamil state in northern and eastern Sri Lanka.