91.  Still, the Islamic opposition appears to have religious rather than economic grievances.

92.  Tajikistan also is alone among the former Soviet Central Asian countries in having a legal Islamic opposition party.

93.  Such convictions are extremely rare in Uzbekistan, which has long been criticized for human rights violations in its campaign against the Islamic opposition.

94.  Tajikistan is an impoverished former Soviet republic in Central Asia where a hardline, Moscow-backed government has been at war with mostly Islamic opposition fighters for years.

95.  Tajikistan is an impoverished Central Asian nation where a hard-line, Moscow-backed government has been battling with mostly Islamic opposition fighters for years.

96.  Tajikistan is an impoverished Central Asian nation where a hardline, Moscow-backed government has been battling with mostly Islamic opposition fighters for years.

97.  Tajikistan is plagued by periodic clashes between the hard-line government and the mostly Islamic opposition.

98.  Tajikistan sees sporadic clashes between government forces and the mostly Islamic opposition following a five-year civil war that ended in a cease-fire.

99.  That was seen as a direct threat to the Islamic opposition.

100.  That was seen as a threat to the Islamic opposition.