1.   An article on Tuesday in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, about Web sites created in the last few months by Palestinian Islamic extremists, supported that theory.

2.   An American attack could otherwise backfire and nurture more Islamic extremists, he has warned.

3.   And Islamic extremists who have perpetrated terrorist violence always appeal to deeply held Arab resentments and grievances.

4.   And the ongoing battle in Chechnya, whose rebels increasingly identify with Islamic extremists, has fueled ingrained anti-Islamic attitudes among elite and average Russians alike.

5.   And they are working with British authorities to tear apart a cell of Islamic extremists there.

6.   As one expert noted in an interview on Thursday, the Russian army already is conducting one fruitless war against Islamic extremists in Chechnya.

7.   A major avenue in Tehran is still named after the Islamic extremist who lead the assassination of famed Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.

8.   A Spanish newspaper, quoting investigators, said he met there with four unidentified Islamic extremists.

9.   All these terrorist attacks, and scores more, were the work of Islamic extremists.

10.   Broad changes in the agency designed to rid it of Islamic extremists have been pushed through since then.