21.  What reporters might have seen, Kumar said, was troops offering protection to voters against the reprisals threatened by insurgent groups.

22.  Young men, saying they are members of insurgent groups, roam the town, demanding protection money from businessmen.

23.  Police killed a seven-member insurgent group, planning to attack foreign embassies in a shootout Saturday, Interior Minister Ljube Boskovski said.

24.  Other insurgent groups, one-time allies of the Karen, have reached cease-fire accords with the government in recent years.

25.  A Burmese insurgent group accused the military regime Tuesday of widening an offensive against ethnic Karen rebels and forcing thousands of civilians to serve as army porters.

26.  A leader in the insurgent group that assassinated Egyptian President Anwar Sadat urged his organization Sunday to quit fighting and pursue Islamic goals peacefully.

27.  A senior commander of former National Liberation Army, the insurgent group that disbanded in September, downplayed the threat formed by the splinter group.

28.  Although the government unilaterally announced the halt of its offensives against insurgent groups, it struck suddenly against the KNU.

29.  An Indian court refused Tuesday to release on bail a former British army officer charged with waging war against India by dropping arms to an insurgent group.

30.  Authorities said they belonged to the Salafist Group for Call and Combat, an Algerian Islamic insurgent group that Spanish authorities said was financed by bin Laden.