11.   Police speculate that the bombing was carried out by leftist guerrillas.

12.   Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin initially said the bombing was carried out by Hamas or its fellow militant group Islamic Jihad.

13.   Prosecutors say the bombing was carried out by Muslim extremists determined to force the United States to change its policies toward Israel and Egypt.

14.   Radical leftist and Islamic groups are active in the city and have carried out bombings in the past.

15.   Radical leftist, Kurdish and Islamic groups have however, carried out bombings in the past in Istanbul.

16.   A day after the prosecution finished its arguments, the defense said the Syrian government has a memo saying the bombing was carried out by a Palestinian militant group.

17.   A military court on Thursday sentenced in absentia a Palestinian to life imprisonment for carrying out bombings in southern Lebanon, the official National News Agency reported.

18.   Abousheh complained that whenever progress was made in peace talks, Hamas was carrying out bombings in hopes of sabotaging the agreements.

19.   An Eritrean government statement said three bombings were carried out at high altitude and one bomb hit a school in Adi Keyh, wounding eight children.

20.   Army Radio cited Palestinian sources who said the bombing was carried out to avenge the killing of an Islamic militant leader in the Gaza Strip last week.