91.   Human rights organizations say rebel groups in African and Latin countries such as Sierra Leone and Colombia use diamonds to pay for vicious wars.

92.   However, the rebel group has taken credit for the recent strikes, including the ambush Thursday in Oaxaca that killed five state police officers.

93.   In a tearful interview with a radio journalist in the Philippines, Osani pleaded with the rebel group to release her husband.

94.   In addition, the civil war in neighboring Congo took away the rear bases for the major rebel group, the National Council for Defense of Democracy.

95.   In contrast to the Qaida terrorists, the many thousands of Filipino Muslims who feed and protect rebel groups are not nuts.

96.   In addition, rebel groups are now extorting growers with a yearly tax.

97.   In recent weeks, the rebel group, which held off Serb forces for more than a year, had begged for a NATO air assault.

98.   In Nigeria they fuel a regionally based opposition movement to the central government, in Sudan an armed rebel group that threatens secession.

99.   In the ceremony attended by officials from the United Nations, the government and the rebel group, uniforms belonging to some child soldiers were burned.

100.   In return, the rebel group agreed to abide by earlier vows to refrain from kidnappings and violence against civilians.