61.  On Friday, Russian news agencies reported a group of Wahhabists was plotting to turn part of Dagestan into an independent Islamic state.

62.  On one hand, Iran remains the Islamic state created by the Ayatollah Khomeini, who returned from exile after the overthrow of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi.

63.  One has to wonder how those Islamic states feel about their former sponsors.

64.  On the mountain tops, just about every activity seems designed to flout the conventions of the Islamic state.

65.  One has to wonder how those Islamic states who allied with the Soviet Union feel about their former sponsors.

66.  Recruits from Egypt, Saudi Arabia and dozens of other Islamic states go, too.

67.  Russia is helping the fundamentalist Islamic state build a nuclear reactor in Bushehr, a port city on the eastern edge of the Persian Gulf.

68.  Sarajevo is not and is unlikely to become a religious Islamic state.

69.  Some believers envision a stricter Islamic state.

70.  Small groups gather secretly in private homes to read the Koran and passing out leaflets that call for the establishment of an Islamic state in the valley.