41.   Adan stopped just short of appealing to vigilante groups in the southern Philippines, which are licensed to bear arms and are not fighting the government.

42.   After their ouster, the guerrillas retreated to the jungles to fight successive governments.

43.   Also Thursday, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, another Muslim rebel group fighting the government, condemned the U.S, air strikes.

44.   Andolan said his group is not fighting the government and was formed only to protect Christians against possible abuses by Muslim rebels.

45.   Armed Karen insurgents, seeking more autonomy for their people, have been fighting the government for more than five decades.

46.   At least two other factions and renegade groups that have turned to banditry are still fighting the government in the south.

47.   Because of their many years in fighting the government, these veterans are seen as the most difficult of the former rebels to reintegrate into society.

48.   Both are Muslim rebel groups still fighting the government in an effort to establish a separate Islamic state in the southern Philippines.

49.   Both are Muslim separatist rebel groups fighting the government.

50.   Bruno was political affairs chief of the Abu Sayyaf, one of two Muslim rebel groups fighting the government for an independent Islamic nation in the southern Philippines.