1.   Most militants claim to be opposed to violence, but their overheated rhetoric gives support to those who do want to break the laws.

2.   Palestinian militants claimed responsibility for the explosions, which caused no deaths or serious injuries, but intensified Israeli fear and anger.

3.   The aftermath of the blast, for which Islamic militants claimed responsibility, left leaders of both sides trying to pick up the shattered pieces of the truce agreement.

4.   The Egyptian authorities have yet to provide more than a sketchy account of the attack, for which Islamic militants have claimed responsibility.

5.   Other militants claimed they were being helped in organizing the defense of their town by army officers who had defected to their side.

6.   Other militants claimed army officers had defected to their side.

7.   Palestinian militants claimed Wednesday that they have been putting poison as well as explosives in bombs targeting Israelis.

8.   Palestinian militants claimed responsibility.

9.   Algerian militants had claimed responsibility for some of those attacks.

10.   Algerian Muslim militants have claimed responsibility for those attacks in retaliation for French support for the Algerian government.