1.   Boucher, a Canadian police officer, put the bus attack down to hatred for Serbs and opposition to the return of Serb refugees to the province.

2.   After the bus attack, settlers blocked a highway leading to Jerusalem and demonstrated outside Gaza.

3.   Even with news of the bus attack, some people appeared determined to go about life as usual.

4.   For Israel, the bus attack was more proof that Arafat was fomenting, not fighting, terrorism.

5.   He said the bus attack had apparently been carried out by the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, the militant Islamic Resistance Movement.

6.   In the morning bus attack, a mortar was apparently used to set off a powerful explosion dozens of yards from the passing bus.

7.   Israel suspects that Mohammed Dahlan, head of the Preventive Security Service in Gaza, was behind the bus attack, according to reports on Israeli television.

8.   My feeling is that the bus attacks never bothered Gordy.

9.   Netanyahu wasted no time on Thursday in invoking the bus attack to get his message across.