21.   He is the third foreigner to be detained on suspicion of involvement with the Abu Sayyaf, an outlawed Moslem fundamentalist group.

22.   He has been successful in getting such agreements from rightist military coup-plotters and the main Moslem separatist group.

23.   He was also involved in securing the release of two Britons kidnapped in the Pahalgam area last year by the Moslem separatist group Harkat-ul-Ansar.

24.   He is accused by authorities here of financing operations by militant Moslem groups aiming to topple the Cairo government.

25.   He said an umbrella organisation of Moslem separatist groups would meet Thursday to discuss the issue.

26.   He said members of a Moslem separatist group had kidnapped the pair to demand extensive media coverage of their split with their parent organization.

27.   He was also involved in securing the release of two Britons kidnapped in the same area last year by another Moslem separatist group.

28.   He said unidentified Moslem armed groups had been shooting at military positions in order to make the troops attack the MILF, leading to the renewed fighting.

29.   He told reporters the last contact with Al-Faran, the hardline Moslem separatist group holding the four tourists, was on Monday evening through intermediaries.

30.   Hezbollah guerrillas bombed a South Lebanon Army patrol on Wednesday killing or wounding all nine pro-Israeli militiamen, the Moslem fundamentalist group said.