1.   Families rarely report kidnappings to the police, with many preferring instead to pay extravagant ransoms rather than risk a bungled rescue where the hostage may be killed.

2.   It may or may not have been his inexperience that compounded the mess that was the Iranian hostage crisis and the bungled rescue operation.

3.   Britain charged that the hostages were killed during a bungled rescue attempt by Yemeni forces.

4.   In London, British newspapers on Wednesday criticized the bungled rescue attempt.

5.   Malcolm and Susan Thirsk, the parents of the dead Australian, said they were not bitter about the bungled rescue attempt.

6.   The militants killed two Israelis in the initial assault, and nine more died in a bungled rescue attempt at a nearby German air base.

7.   Policemen shot dead an Irish Roman Catholic missionary during a bungled rescue mission in western Kenya, his colleagues said Thursday.