31.   In Jerusalem, Ron Tarassian, who heads a right-wing fringe group called Our Jerusalem, fumes that Abbas is sitting in Gaza.

32.   It goes well beyond fringe groups inspired by the anti-Gentile fulminations of Rabbi Meir Kahane, himself the victim of an assassin.

33.   Instead, they fear that the fringe groups are bent on, and perhaps capable of, wrecking the peace process.

34.   Many people fear that the concessions being made to fringe groups are strengthening the hand of hard-liners in the bigger, more lethal paramilitary organizations.

35.   Miyawaki said that in both the American and the Japanese case, taboos that discouraged police and government officials from closely monitoring fringe groups contributed to the crises.

36.   Most political analysts quickly dismissed it as a fringe group.

37.   On the contrary, ordinary law-abiding citizens generally ignore fringe groups until tragedies such as the Oklahoma City bombing force them to confront the real dangers.

38.   Police have also tried, at various times, contacting Ouija board readers, political and religious fringe groups and prisons.

39.   Right-wing fringe groups hate McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam.

40.   Since the Oklahoma bombing, with the focus on militias and fringe groups, there has been a backlash against these new media.