1.   The defendant claimed that he was only avenging the killing of his brother.

2.   At a funeral punctuated by bursts of gunfire, mourners vowed to avenge the killings with bombings in Tel Aviv.

3.   For his colleagues, avenging that killing was personal, said Tom Raffanello, the Phoenix special agent in charge.

4.   He said he sought to avenge the killing of an associate in police custody.

5.   In a claim of responsibility made to an Israeli reporter, a group indicated it wished to avenge the killing of Jewish children by killing Arab ones.

6.   In a claim of responsibility made to an Israeli reporter, a group indicated that it wished to avenge the killing of Jewish children by killing Arab ones.

7.   Israelis braced for an attack on Tel Aviv promised by Hamas to avenge the killing of its commander.

8.   It said the bombing was in part to avenge the killing last month of three Palestinian policemen in a clash with Israeli soldiers.

9.   Their return to the politics of terror was, they say, to avenge the killing of Ayyash and other Islamist activists.

10.   Osama bin Laden is already on record as threatening to avenge the killing of scores of his followers.