After the insurgency began in 1989, the number of armed Muslim separatists grew from hundreds to thousands.

Perhaps she can offer reassurances that the Federal answer to armed separatists has become more rational and more subtle.

But officials said the two nations had agreed to postpone the move because the surrender of weapons by armed separatists had been sporadic in the last 10 days.

In countless courtroom speeches, he maintained that Serbia had no choice but to combat the armed separatists of the Kosovo Liberation Army, which he called Western-backed terrorists.

The Tigers had lost support even among other armed separatists for their violent tactics.

South Africa Talks Disrupted Hundreds of armed white separatists stormed South Africa's constitutional talks, then dispersed without causing serious casualties.

Turkey is trying to become a member of the European Union, and navigating a violent fight with armed separatists has proved difficult.

In another case in the same week, 21 people were convicted whose work on behalf of ETA prisoners actually belied secretive links to the armed separatists themselves.

Small groups of armed Muslim separatists who 15 months ago were described as a "radical fringe" attractive mostly to unemployed youth, now apparently have the support of an alienated, influential middle class.

In the two-day investiture debate, Mr. Aznar, 47, promised more reforms to maintain economic growth and a firm stance against armed Basque separatists.