Washington, DC — Twelve of the 22 individuals on the FBI's 'Most Wanted Terrorist" list released by the White House on Wednesday are from African nations.

Seven of the men are Egyptian, three more come, respectively, from Libya, Zanzibar and the Comoro Islands, while two more come from Kenya.

Almost all the Africans on the list were involved in the 1998 US Embassy bombings in East Africa.

The large number of Africans reflects the continent's fertility as a recruiting ground for the radical Islamist movements that have emerged thanks, some believe, to the failures of post-colonial African governments to provide adequate education systems and healthy economies.

Several African nations and cities have been rocked by fundamentalist Islamist violence in recent years. Others find themselves faced with strong and growing movements aimed at establishing Islamic Sharia law as the underlying code for government and the courts.

African nations form a large share of the 56 states who make up membership of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) that met Wednesday in the Qatari capital of Doha. The Taliban has called on the OIC ministers to press the United States for negotiations.

In a final statement, the foreign ministers gathered for the OIC emergency session rejected ``targeting any Islamic or Arab state under the pretext of fighting terrorism.'' Without naming them, Bush Administration officials have said that in the fight against terror, they may attack other countries

There was no specific condemnation of the attack on what the US describes as Taliban and terrorist targets in Afghanistan. The OIC expressed concern for civilians and called on the United States to limit the attacks to the perpetrators of the 11 Sepetember attacks. The meeting's muted response is believed to have been caused, in part, by belief among African governments in particular, but also elsewhere, that Osama Bin Laden's Islamist movement Al-Qaida should be shut down.