21.  The government and its Islamic opposition now uneasily govern Tajikistan together, but desperate poverty and a tattered social and economic infrastructure survive.

22.  The issue is critical for Arafat because Hebron is a stronghold of Hamas, his Islamic opposition.

23.  The Islamic opposition is reported to be split between militants who reject the Israeli-Palestinian agreement and moderates who want to take part in the coming elections.

24.  The most yawning gap in the campaign is the absence of Hamas, the Islamic opposition group that has the strongest backing among Palestinians.

25.  The same day, however, Islamic opposition papers in Egypt joined the assault on the conference.

26.  Their support, along with that of pro-government candidates, is likely to be enough to override Islamic opposition to the edict.

27.  Their deaths signaled severe fighting within the ranks of the Islamic opposition that was once united around the goal of bringing down the Algerian government.

28.  Today, thanks to a three-year crackdown following a terror attack, leaders of the Islamic opposition are all either in jail or in exile.

29.  Zeroual ran on a platform of continuing to fight radical Islamic militants while widening the political spectrum to include the secular and moderate Islamic opposition.

30.  Overwhelmingly Muslim but staunchly secular Uzbekistan has been for the past several years battling the radical Islamic opposition which seeks to set up an Islamic state in Central Asia.