61.   The information barrage comes as U.S. officials voice concern that they are losing ground in the propaganda war in Afghanistan and other Muslim nations.

62.   The meetings occurred a week ago in Bali, a predominantly Hindu area of an overwhelmingly Muslim nation.

63.   The plan would prefer an all-Afghan force or multinational force from Muslim nations over a traditional U.N. peacekeeping operation.

64.   The same issue has caused blood to flow in many Muslim nations, but none as large and powerful and strategic as this one.

65.   The United States has few allies on this beyond a group of largely Muslim nations.

66.   There has been speculation that the United States also hopes to target Iraq and perhaps other predominantly Muslim nations that harbor terrorists.

67.   They also come at a sensitive moment in the war against terrorism, whose ultimate success depends on the cooperation of several Arab and Muslim nations.

68.   They are predominantly Muslim nations and considered vulnerable targets should Taliban gain full control and begin efforts to export its fundamentalist credo.

69.   Though she and other charity workers were allowed to do humanitarian work, trying to convert Afghans to Christianity is forbidden in this strictly Muslim nation.

70.   Three of the six nations bordering Afghanistan are predominantly Muslim nations that were formerly republics within the Soviet Union.