Some officials said the suspects appeared more like an ad hoc group sympathetic to the aims of Hamas.

There, help in finding hide-outs from sympathetic groups would be virtually assured.

In Kansas he found a sympathetic group to put his ideas into action.

Mr. Bapela, reading from a statement prepared by local groups sympathetic to the congress, said no one had called for an organized strike.

The magazine receives much funding from sympathetic European groups.

Communist terrorism did not enjoy full support from all ideologically sympathetic groups.

Experts also weighed other possibilities, including a group sympathetic to Iraq.

True, the Hutu now being victimized are not a sympathetic group of refugees.

"Al Qaeda is working with other independent groups and individuals sympathetic to their cause," he said.

He found a sympathetic group of revolutionaries in Tver.