1.   The attack was widely regarded as an assassination attempt on Gilchrist Olympio, chairman of the opposition alliance Union of the Forces of Change, who suffered serious injuries.

2.   Any Central Asian government that makes their territory available for an attack will be regarded as a traitor.

3.   Father Cain said he regarded the attacks as unrelated to his goals.

4.   Larry A. Silverstein, who holds the lease on the towers, has said the attack should be regarded as two incidents because two planes were involved.

5.   State and local law enforcement officials have made no arrests and decline to say whether they regard the attacks as homophobic.

6.   Police raided a luxury hotel and took away an unspecified number of suspects for questioning regarding bomb attacks in Lusaka, a state-owned newspaper reported Tuesday.

7.   Ethiopia made no statement regarding the attack.

8.   Ivanko praised prompt action by the local police, and said the international police force regarded the attacks as an isolated incident.

9.   ITAR-Tass said the peacekeeping troops regarded the attack as an act of terrorism.

10.   NATO did not regard the attacks as serious, alliance spokesman Col. Mark Rayner said.