31.   It would also air its concerns over reports that Baghdad was harboring Kurdish rebels fighting for autonomy in southeast Turkey.

32.   Laos has accused its neighbor of harboring anti-communist rebels who two years ago briefly seized one of the frontier crossing points in southern Laos.

33.   Last week Burundian military officials reported heavy fighting between government troops and rebels in the southern part of the country and blamed Tanzania for harboring rebels in refugee camps.

34.   Lebanon on Monday denied it is harboring Kurdish rebels and blamed Israel for the rising tension between Syria and Turkey.

35.   Liberia, meanwhile, accuses of Sierra Leone of harboring rebels that want to unseat Taylor.

36.   Lebanon denied that it is harboring the rebels and President Elias Hrawi traveled to Damascus on Monday in a show of support for Syria.

37.   Meanwhile heavy artillery fire slammed into villages harboring rebels near the Yugoslav province of Kosovo.

38.   Moscow has long accused Georgia, the only foreign country that borders Chechnya, of harboring Chechen rebels.

39.   On Wednesday, the defense ministry warned that those harboring Tamil rebels would be imprisoned.

40.   Relations between the Solomons and Papua New Guinea have been tense during the nine-year conflict on Bougainville, with PNG accusing the Solomons of harboring secessionist rebels.