1.   Among them are rising Islamic insurgency, drug trafficking, international terrorism, severe poverty and potentially explosive ethnic tensions.

2.   A large majority of officers and senior commanders believe they can put down the Islamic insurgency by force, but the loyalty of their soldiers is increasingly in doubt.

3.   Further east, Russian troops are stationed in former Soviet Central Asia to help fight Islamic insurgencies.

4.   Its politically active congregation, which supported the Islamic insurgency in Egypt and raised money for Muslims who fought as volunteers in the war in Bosnia, has dispersed.

5.   Its discontents have fueled the militant Islamic insurgency in Egypt.

6.   Izmailov said the informant indicated the explosions were organized by two leaders of the Islamic insurgency in Dagestan, Shamil Basayev and Khattab.

7.   Leaders of the Islamic insurgency in Chechnya, who weeks ago crossed into the southern province of Dagestan to wage war, were exacting revenge, he said.

8.   Moscow supports the group because it blames the Taliban for exporting Islamic insurgency into the Russian republic of Chechnya.

9.   Officials say the drug trade has been used to finance Islamic insurgencies in Central Asia.

10.   This splintering of the Islamic insurgency through five years of war makes it particularly difficult to lay real foundations for reconciliation.