11.   High on the list were Saudi militants who resent the presence of foreigners and their Western ways.

12.   India maintains that the militants are pawns of Pakistan, which Pakistan denies.

13.   Islamic militant groups have called for a holy war against the United States, while the secular government contends that Muslim militants are a threat here.

14.   Islamic militants are not hard to find in Pakistan.

15.   Israeli leaders say the cabinet authorizes the attacks only when it has unambiguous intelligence information that a Palestinian militant is poised to carry out an attack.

16.   Islamic militants have long been active in Algeria, which is now facing a separate rebellion by ethnic Berbers.

17.   It is also true that Islamic militants are threatening states beyond Israel.

18.   Israel said top militants it seeks were in the compound, a claim denied by Rajoub.

19.   Kamal, the Palestinian, argued that although the militants were wrong, they had sacrificed their lives for their country.

20.   Later, terrorists blew up apartment houses in Moscow, acts for which most Russians believe the Chechen militants were somehow responsible.