11.   The government said the rebels sent a fresh round of extortion letters to businesses threatening attack if they did not make substantial payments.

12.   The group threatened more attacks on Americans if the Pakistani, Mir Aimal Kansi, was sentenced to death by a Virginia jury.

13.   The group threatened more attacks to drive American and Western troops from Muslim countries.

14.   We respond because thousands of Americans lie dead from a vicious, unprovoked attack on this nation, and because more such terrorist attacks are threatened.

15.   With Turkey threatening further attacks, the Kurdistan Workers Party leader, Abdullah Ocalan, said he was ready to resist.

16.   Otherwise, al-Qanoon threatened more attacks, the group said in a fax message to the Pakistani newspaper Umat.

17.   PAGAD leaders threatened revenge attacks.

18.   A day earlier, a previously unknown group calling itself the Nationalist Kurdish Revenge Forces threatened attacks in a statement carried by a pro-Kurdish news agency in Germany.

19.   A days-old peace accord in Chechnya appeared in jeopardy Thursday after Chechen rebels temporarily suspended talks and their leader threatened terrorist attacks against Russia.

20.   A clandestine nationalist group that claimed responsibility for assassinating the top French official on Corsica is threatening new attacks, after the government launched a new crackdown.