1.   At some point, an Israeli Merkava or a Palestinian with a homemade mortar is going to hit a school or a hospital.

2.   But a homemade mortar fired by the FARC crashed through the church roof, turning the building into a slaughterhouse.

3.   The Israeli Army closed roads in and around the Gaza Strip after a night in which homemade mortar shells were lobbed at Jewish settlements in northern Gaza.

4.   Police who investigated the report found a car that had been set up to launch homemade mortars, according to a bomb squad member.

5.   Rebels rained homemade mortar shells down on an Indian community Thursday, killing three police officers, authorities said.

6.   Authorities said the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, fired homemade mortars into the church.

7.   Authorities said the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, launched homemade mortars into the church.

8.   Authorities said the FARC fired homemade mortars into the church on Thursday.

9.   Before that, leftist guerrillas frequently used homemade mortars or smoke bombs.

10.   But most big IRA vehicle bombs used ordinary agricultural fertilizer for explosives and homemade mortar tubes, illustrating that any IRA disarmament would be partial at best.