21.   He is demanding the deployment of army troops at the disputed site to keep Hindus from holding a prayer ceremony near the site on Friday.

22.   Hindu leaders have threatened to begin constructing the temple if the government does not hand over the disputed site by mid-March.

23.   Hindu nationalists want to build a temple at the disputed site.

24.   Hindu groups already have constructed hundreds of stone pillars and statues of gods and goddesses for the temple and stacked them near the disputed site.

25.   However, Muslim leaders are apprehensive that Hindu hard-liners will press ahead with construction if symbolic prayers are permitted next to the disputed site.

26.   Hindu priest leading ceremony at disputed religious site says he is willing to do it outside banned area, apparently defusing crisis.

27.   Hundreds of security forces are protecting the disputed site amid a dispute between Hindus and Muslims over the government-owned land.

28.   In a move to end the crisis, Iraq may allow U.N. inspectors access to eight disputed sites, the Cable News Network reported.

29.   In an effort to end the crisis, Iraq may allow U.N. inspectors access to eight disputed sites, the Cable News Network reported.

30.   In exchange, Israel would drop claims of sovereignty over disputed religious sites in east Jerusalem.