21.   Like the United States, much of Europe is on high alert, everyone watching warily for suspected Islamic terrorists in their midsts.

22.   Moscow says that Islamic terrorists are fighting for control of the oil-rich region, but Chechen rebels say they are fighting for independence.

23.   Moreover, because Uzbekistan maintains an intense security apparatus over its citizens, it also has gathered intelligence on suspected Islamic terrorists or sympathizers from interrogations.

24.   No one has been arrested in connection with that bombing, which initially was blamed on Islamic terrorists but may have been tied to an obscure antitechnology movement.

25.   Now there is a risk that American anger against Islamic terrorists could expand against all Muslims, here and across the world.

26.   Putin calls the rebels Islamic terrorists of the same stripe as those who were recently routed in Afghanistan.

27.   Russia has long accused separatist rebels in Chechnya of being Islamic terrorists linked to Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda.

28.   Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said the measures are needed to stop arms smuggling and to prevent Islamic terrorists from flocking to the north Caucasus region.

29.   Since then Islamic terrorists have targeted women, intellectuals and foreigners as well as government supporters.

30.   Sixty Islamic terrorists, trained in Afghanistan by Osama bin Laden, are holed up in the town of Biyara in northern Iraq, guests of Saddam Hussein.