21.   The State Security Court was set up in March to deal with nearly two years of unrest by the Shiite opposition.

22.   The Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq is the main Shiite opposition group.

23.   He is the son of Sheikh Abdel Amir al-Jamri, the main Shiite opposition leader who has been under arrest since January.

24.   He said he had been in contact with Shiite opposition leaders in Bahrain and in London who welcomed the Iranian plot.

25.   Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is massing troops on the edge of three Shiite Moslem areas in the south of the country, the main Shiite opposition said Tuesday.

26.   A banned Shiite opposition group, the Islamic Front for the Liberation of Bahrain, said the Gulf state had been put under martial law.

27.   A key demand of the mainly Shiite opposition activists is for the government to bring back the elected parliament, which it had dissolved.

28.   The Pentagon also said it had witnessed no massing of Iraqi forces in southern Iraq, discounting a claim by a Shiite opposition group in Dubai.

29.   The SCIRI, the leading Shiite exiled opposition movement, did not specify the nature of its sources in Iraq.

30.   Three exiled Shiite opposition leaders Sunday called on the people of Bahrain to demonstrate later this week to protest government repression.