31.   Instead, Assad railed against longtime U.S. charges that his country supports terrorist groups.

32.   It has supported lobbying groups such as Coalition Against Bigger Trucks and Citizens for Reliable and Safe Highways, or CRASH.

33.   ITDG and other charities work by supporting groups that already exist in the slums.

34.   It recounted several former road ragers who are now pussycats after going to support groups.

35.   John Walker Lindh, the American wanderer turned Taliban warrior, was charged Tuesday in a criminal complaint with conspiring to kill U.S. citizens and supporting terrorist groups.

36.   Last fall, he supported a group of generals trying to undermine the civilian defense minister.

37.   Keeping track of these things is the work of the Council on Competitiveness, a Washington, D.C., group supported mainly by business.

38.   Meanwhile, the government announced a new effort to restrain Jewish militants, including a ban on immigration to Israel by Jews who support extremist groups.

39.   Moscow supports the group because it blames the Taliban for exporting Islamic insurgency into the Russian republic of Chechnya.

40.   Most home-schooling families belong to support groups.