31.   Authorities say tourists were the intended targets of Islamic militants, who saw an attack on the booming tourism industry as a way to cripple the secular Egyptian government.

32.   Authorities in Pakistan have said that he was abducted in a well-planned operation in Karachi, where he had spent several weeks investigating the activities of Islamic militants.

33.   Because of its proximity to the West Bank, Netanya has been repeatedly targeted by Islamic militants.

34.   Beyond these tensions, the Islamic militants, whose unit is known as the mujahedeen brigade, pose a broader image problem for the Bosnian government.

35.   Before the latest war, the city was lawless and some Islamic militants had little tolerance for the Russian clergy.

36.   Bin Laden made his way back to Afghanistan, where a new group of young Islamic militants, the Taliban, was taking control.

37.   Blair, met President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, and pressed for a clear statement from the Pakistani government, implicitly rejecting its recent crackdown on Islamic militants as insufficient.

38.   Boaz Ganor, director of the Israeli-based International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism, said reporters should be wary of people promising exclusives involving Islamic militants.

39.   Both countries warn that Islamic militants throughout the Arab world might react violently if sovereignty over any part of East Jerusalem is conceded to Israel.

40.   A bit less vocal was India, which faces attacks by Islamic militants hoping to pry all of disputed Kashmir away.