21.   Ayoub Akhras spent four years in Israeli jails for supporting Palestinian militants.

22.   Businesses remained closed, city buses stayed off the streets and demonstrators marched Monday in a nationwide strike supporting Kashmiri militants against India.

23.   But President Hosni Mubarak accused the group of supporting Muslim militants, and hundreds of its members have been arrested.

24.   But Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, in an election speech Sunday, reiterated that India will not resume talks as long as Pakistan supports the militants.

25.   But the Albanians remain largely divided between those loyal to pacifist ethnic Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova, and those who support the militants.

26.   But the Albanians remain largely divided between those loyal to Rugova, and those who support the militants.

27.   But Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, in an election speech Saturday, reiterated that India will not resume talks as long as Pakistan supports the militants.

28.   Egypt has long accused Sudan and Iran of supporting Muslim militants fighting a simmering insurgency in southern Egypt.

29.   Egypt has long accused Sudan of supporting Muslim militants in Egypt bent on toppling its secular regime.

30.   Egypt has long said that Sudan has played a role in supporting Islamic militants operating in Egypt, straining relations.