51.   Hamas said it would step up suicide attacks on Israelis in retaliation for the strike.

52.   Hamas is opposed to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and it has engineered suicide attacks during previous diplomatic missions by Zinni.

53.   Hamas said it had seven more members ready to carry out suicide attacks.

54.   He argues that Palestinian suicide bombers are products of the Israeli occupation and that when occupation ends so will the suicide attacks.

55.   He said that Palestinian suicide attacks were spreading fear and anxiety throughout the Israeli population.

56.   He said that having grown up with the idea of suicide attacks, Palestinian children were equating death with power.

57.   Hit in the suicide attacks are the Intrepid, Cabot, Essex and Hancock.

58.   His visit followed a brief stop at the Pentagon on Wednesday, site of the other suicide attack by one of four hijacked passenger airliners on Tuesday.

59.   In a retaliatory suicide attack, three Israeli soldiers were killed.