11.   Venezuela tightened security around the site of the Ibero-American Summit on the resort island of Margarita after police blew up a suspicious car parked nearby.

12.   Police later carried out a controlled explosion of a second suspicious car in the garage.

13.   British army bomb-disposal experts blasted open a suspicious car outside police headquarters Thursday following a telephoned warning.

14.   In the first incident Monday, Israeli police stopped a suspicious car on a road leading to Jerusalem from the Jordan River Valley, part of the West Bank.

15.   In the Bethlehem area, an Israeli patrol stopped a suspicious Arab car.

16.   Maaleh Adumim Mayor Benny Kashriel said police stopped a suspicious car near the checkpoint, and the occupants set off an explosive inside.

17.   Near downtown Jerusalem, an Israeli policeman stopped a suspicious car Monday evening, and the driver detonated an explosive, killing them both.

18.   Near downtown Jerusalem on Monday evening, an Israeli soldier stopped a suspicious car, and the driver detonated an explosive, killing them both.

19.   On Sunday night, police set up roadblocks outside Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and were stopping suspicious cars, causing traffic jams.

20.   Passengers in the suspicious car opened fire, wounding Mahmoud.