21.   Arafat also paid a visit to the Tomb of the Unknown soldier and the home of jailed Hamas leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin.

22.   But each time conditions have been set ahead of negotiations, such as freeing jailed leaders.

23.   Electoral authorities have said their jailed leader, Foday Sankoh, is not eligible because he is not a registered voter.

24.   Extremist groups have threatened to retaliate unless their jailed leaders are released.

25.   Group warns US against extraditing jailed leader.

26.   He declined to elaborate, but previous hostage-takings included demands to free jailed fundamentalist leaders.

27.   He and another jailed leader of the Belarussian Popular Front, Yuri Khadyko, began a hunger strike to demand their release.

28.   He and another jailed Popular Front leader, Vyacheslav Sivchik, began a hunger strike to demand their release.

29.   He said this included the release of the jailed leader of the National Council for Maubere Resistance, Xanana Gusmao, and all political prisoners.

30.   In one of two hijackings that ended peacefully in Spain earlier this year, the release of jailed fundamentalist leaders was demanded but rejected.