11.   Those events, in turn, have made it important to understand the extremist movements in America.

12.   Although he sympathizes with Iran and Muslim fundamentalists, he is not known to be affiliated with any extremist movement.

13.   An Islamic extremist movement clashed with police in central Sudan, leaving a policeman and eight militants dead, the government said.

14.   But extremist movements, especially Wahhabism, recently have been on the rise and have been blamed for violence in several parts of the former Soviet Union.

15.   Instead, Uzbekistan has been fighting its own homegrown extremist movement, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.

16.   Ironically, the bill could be used against people who study extremist movements or speak out against them, Verkhovsky said.

17.   Iran is accused of supporting several other extremist Islamic movements throughout the Middle East.

18.   It quoted Kazak Interior Ministry official Klamukhanbet Kasymov as saying that those arrested in Kazakstan were members of the extremist Wahhabi movement and that they were well-funded.

19.   It was the first time the loosely structured extremist movement has admitted that its popularity was waning.

20.   She told The Associated Press her brothers had trained with a militant group in Afghanistan but insisted they were no longer in the extremist movement.