51.   The biggest charity in Gaza, al-Mujama al-Islamiya, was founded by Sheik Ahmad Yassin, the jailed leader of Hamas.

52.   The group threatened to launch a protest movement if its jailed leaders and activists are not released by next Sunday.

53.   The fighting worsened this month when President Liamine Zeroual ordered an all-out offensive after talks with jailed Islamic leaders on negotiating a way out of the violence fell through.

54.   The Egyptian government denied reports Friday that police had uncovered a plot by suspected Islamic militants to kidnap Americans in Egypt and swap them for jailed extremist leaders.

55.   The government launched an unprecedented offensive this month after negotiations with jailed Salvation Front leaders broke down.

56.   The government denied reports Friday that police had uncovered a plot by suspected Islamic militants to kidnap Americans in Egypt and swap them with jailed extremist leaders.

57.   The group has routinely called for the liberation of its jailed leaders as a necessary step toward peace.

58.   The jailed spiritual leader of the Islamic militant group Hamas was hospitalized Thursday with pneumonia.

59.   The Interior Ministry statement also said state security agents had broken up an attempt by jailed leaders of the Vanguards of Conquest to reform their group.

60.   The Kurds had taken over the Socialist Party office to pressure the French government to act on behalf of their jailed leader.