1.   An obscure group of Islamic fighters claimed responsibility, according to police.

2.   And soon there will be captured Islamic fundamentalist fighters from Afghanistan.

3.   But even if they make an all-out effort, U.S. policymakers are resigned to the fact that some foreign Islamic fighters, Iranian or others, will remain.

4.   Disciplined and orderly, the Taliban are also unlike the past regime of Islamic fighters in Kabul in that they have refrained from looting.

5.   Eventually Saparov relented and, sitting cross-legged on the mosque floor, outlined his view of the Islamic fighters.

6.   He said he used recipes for making explosives that he learned in a training camp for Islamic fighters in Afghanistan.

7.   His al Qaeda terrorist organization was formed a decade ago, recruiting Islamic fighters who had fought against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.

8.   It lay on a table in a long blue velvet case, a gift from Islamic fighters.

9.   Islamic fighters stayed out of the largely Christian town.

10.   Like al-Qaida, militant groups based in Pakistan have also drawn Islamic fighters from other countries.