11.   Israeli officials offered contradictory assessments Monday on whether the attack violated the U.S-brokered truce between Israel and Hezbollah that ended the April fighting.

12.   Lavrov, who called for the formal Security Council meeting, said the attacks violated council resolutions.

13.   Mueller said such attacks violate U.S. hate crime laws and the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Justice Department will aggressively investigate and prosecute any violations.

14.   President Boris Yeltsin ordered his top ministers on Friday to explain why Russian air attacks had again violated his promise to stop bombing Grozny.

15.   Rosal said the planned attacks do not violate any agreement in the peace talks.

16.   Speaking by telephone from Mogadishu, he said the attack violated a peace deal ahead of the talks.

17.   The attack violated a fragile cease-fire brokered by the United Nations, which has been trying to end more than two years of bloodletting by rival islamic factions.

18.   The head of the international Red Cross, Philippe Gaillard, said the ambulance attack violated international humanitarian law.

19.   The head of the international Red Cross, Philippe Gaillard, said the attack violated international humanitarian law.

20.   The news agency quoted a government spokesman as saying the attack violated of a cease-fire between the warring sides in the Tajik civil war.