61.   Authorities said the militants were about to launch suicide attacks and bombings after undergoing military training in neighboring Greece.

62.   Authorities said the militant was no longer under the orders of the state when Birdal was shot.

63.   Authorities suspected Palestinian militants were behind the shooting early Thursday.

64.   But Albanian sources told the AP in Tirana that the four alleged militants had been spirited out of the country by U.S. agents.

65.   But the officials claimed the militants were too disorganized and scattered to stage large-scale attacks, the Interfax news agency reported.

66.   But the government rejected it, saying the militants were on the run and would be shown no mercy.

67.   But U.S. officials carefully avoided cautioning Israel against less forceful reactions, particularly if it turns out that radical militants were responsible for the bus attack.

68.   Chimayev claimed the Russians also had bombed scores of mountain villages in which there are no militants, killing hundreds of people.

69.   EU comes to view Kosovo militants must be part of any peace deal.

70.   Foreign scholars say Beijing may be exaggerating the threat and that the militants are few and poorly organized.