71.   In interviews with Thai reporters, they have declined to call themselves defectors, instead saying that they no longer wished to fight the government.

72.   In other incidents, militants have tried to cross into neighboring Rwanda and Burundi, where Hutu rebels are fighting Tutsi-dominated governments.

73.   In the past, Uganda has accused Sudan of violating its air-space, apparently in pursuit of the Sudanese rebels fighting the government in Khartoum.

74.   It and a smaller group, the Abu Sayyaf, are the two remaining Muslim rebel groups still fighting the government.

75.   Intelligence officials say several separatist groups fighting government forces operate from bases in Bangladesh, a charge Dhaka denies.

76.   It did not specify where, but Egypt has accused Sudan in the past of financing and training Muslim militants fighting the government.

77.   It is unclear whether Madani could persuade Islamic militants from fighting the government.

78.   It and a smaller group, the Abu Sayyaf, are the two remaining Muslim rebel factions still fighting the government.

79.   It is south of the region where Muslim militants have fought the government in a four-year rebellion to install strict Islamic rule.

80.   Kabila claims Rwanda is supporting rebels fighting his government, and has threatened war.