41.   Cairo accuses the Islamic fundamentalist regime in Khartoum of serving as a rear base for Egyptian Moslem militants and of involvement in the bid to kill Mubarak.

42.   Ciller appealed to Iran to take the necessary steps to stop the PKK using Iranian territory as a rear base.

43.   Cyprus has been used in the past as a rear base by some Middle East militant groups.

44.   Forty million have been spent in Croatia, which serves as the logistical rear base for operations.

45.   The report said the infiltrators tried to reach a nearby forest to hole up there and use it as a rear base.

46.   The movement in effect cut off the last Chechen separatist fighters still holding positions in southern Grozny from their rear base.

47.   The PKK maintains rear bases in northern Iraq.

48.   The situation in the Pankisi gorge has soured relations between Georgia and Russia, which accuses Tbilisi of allowing Chechen rebels to use it as a rear base.

49.   The PKK has set up rear bases in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq.

50.   The Polisario Front waged a war against the Moroccan administration of the Western Sahara from rear bases inside Algeria, which backed the movement.