21.   Authorities believe that the Wahhabis, a fundamentalist Islamic sect, could have been involved in the attack on Mufti Said-Mohammad Abubakarov.

22.   Authorities in southern Russia mediated a truce Tuesday between Muslim villagers and members of a fundamentalist Islamic sect after a clash that left one man dead and three wounded.

23.   Authorities believe that the Wahhabis, a fundamentalist Islamic sect, could have been involved in the attack.

24.   Bhutto said her government had begun gathering intelligence information on militant Islamic sects operating in her country with the goal of cracking down on extremism.

25.   Chinese police searched Tuesday for members of an illegal Islamic sect accused of fomenting one of the worst riots to hit restive, predominantly Muslim northwestern China in years.

26.   Deadly riots this month by a pro-secular Islamic sect has awakened Turks to the specter of communal violence.

27.   Dozens of militant Muslims belonging to both Islamic sects have been jailed, although few people have been convicted in courts.

28.   Four former members of a banned Islamic sect have been arrested under a law that allows indefinite detention without trial.

29.   He apparently had been trying to scare members of a rival Islamic sect.

30.   He set off another controversy by inviting leaders of radical Islamic sects to a dinner party at his residence.