1.   Beyond that, there are close links between bin Laden and militant Islamic separatists in the Russian province of Chechnya.

2.   He is certainly a militant separatist with no time for the integrationist dream that drove the civil-rights movement.

3.   Militant Flemish separatists have used the crimes and accusations of complicity on the part of French-speaking officials to step up demands for a separate state.

4.   Quebec Premier Jacques Parizeau, a militant separatist, announced his resignation a day after losing the referendum vote.

5.   Russian forces will delve deeper into the southern territory in their effort to crush militant separatists.

6.   Such language is most evident in the more extreme programs of talk radio and the hateful screeds of militant separatists.

7.   Police also blamed the earlier blasts on militant separatists.

8.   A powerful bomb destroyed an unoccupied villa Saturday on this Mediterranean island, where militant separatists are waging a violent campaign to break away from France.

9.   An accord to give Corsicans more self-government, reached in lengthy negotiations with the French government, has failed to assuage militant separatists.

10.   Both had received death threats from militant separatists.