1.   His successor was named as Kerim Aydin Erdem, who was reported to be sympathetic to the Islamic faction.

2.   Responsibility for his killing was attributed to an extremist Islamic faction.

3.   American officials also have been pressing Arafat to promise Palestinian cooperation with Israeli efforts to stem suicide bombings by militant members of Hamas, the Islamic fundamentalist faction.

4.   It remains unclear whether all the Islamic factions fighting the Algerian government would go along with the Rome proposals, which two major secularist parties also signed.

5.   More important, the front said that militant Islamic factions must be included in any talks that take place.

6.   Responsibility for that attack was taken by a militant Islamic faction.

7.   Since then, the number of violent Islamic factions multiplied and have carried out a campaign of terrorism and killing.

8.   The chief suspect in the case is Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, a British-born Islamic faction leader.

9.   The first two were new names in the roster of militant Islamic factions in Gaza.

10.   These bands slaughter anyone seen as a collaborator with the government or with rival Islamic factions, authorities say.