1.   He depicted himself as a convenient target for American officials who want to use Russia as a scapegoat for their own bungled efforts to run guerrilla wars.

2.   Several Republicans are calling for an accounting of the bungled effort to topple Gingrich.

3.   The Baseball Network is a disaster, just one more example of bungled efforts by baseball.

4.   The voter purge drew criticism as a bungled effort and sparked accusations that it was engineered to remove blacks from the voter rolls.

5.   Opposition parties have demanded that Premier Costas Simitis resign over the bungled effort to protect Ocalan, as new embarrassing details of the operation have come to light.

6.   Greeks consider the bungled effort to find Ocalan asylum a national humiliation and have turned their anger on the government.

7.   The government-backed investigators said the military bungled efforts to restore order in Jakarta, in many cases ignoring looters or taking payoffs to guard terrified ethnic Chinese.

8.   Yousef allegedly was involved in another bungled bombing effort in Manila, Philippines.