1.   Mubarak, the Saudis and his own militant followers could sense the momentum going his way.

2.   Spare his life, he says, and he will work to persuade his militant followers to negotiate a peaceful solution to the Kurdish revolt.

3.   Al-Fadl said he told embassy officials, and later the FBI, that militant Muslim followers of bin Laden were preparing to wage war against America.

4.   Al-Fadl said he told embassy officials, and later FBI agents, that the militant Muslim followers of bin Laden wanted to wage war against America.

5.   Burundi officials said the attackers were militant Hutu followers of the National Council for the Defense of Democracy, led by a former Cabinet minister, Leonard Nyangoma.

6.   But prosecutors depicted each one as militant followers of bin Laden, willing to carry out his every order.

7.   Militant followers of both sects have formed groups that routinely clash.

8.   Nduhirubusa said the attackers were militant Hutu followers of the National Council for the Defense of Democracy, led by Leonard Nyangoma.

9.   With a core of several hundred militant followers, Islamic Jihad is considered even more uncompromising in its opposition to Israel than the larger Hamas group.

10.   With a hard core of several hundred militant followers, Islamic Jihad is considered more uncompromising in its opposition to Israel than the larger Hamas militant group.