21.   Police rushed Yamamoto after tossing him a bottle of water as a diversionary tactic, NHK said.

22.   Azeri experts quoted by the agency said the Armenian operation was a diversionary tactic.

23.   But Abiola family members and the opposition said that the police action in concentrating their investigation on the Abiola family was a diversionary tactic.

24.   But Syria sees the proposal as a diversionary tactic, and Assad said he would hold out for peace negotiations on his own terms.

25.   The rebels launched a simultaneous attack on the defences of Palaly, which is surrounded by rebel fortifications, as a diversionary tactic.

26.   The Palaly military base had come under LTTE shelling in an apparent diversionary tactic for the rebel attacking force in Araly Point, officials said.