1.   The stabbings provoked widespread alarm in Israel and often led to retaliatory attacks on innocent Arabs.

2.   Retaliatory attacks by government troops prompted the head of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Jalal Talabani, to appeal to the West for assistance to counter Iraqi repression.

3.   And it put all sides on alert for a retaliatory attack and the inevitable backlash it would foster against the Arab-Israel peace.

4.   Another possibility would be a covert action in which India could hire disaffected Pakistanis to execute a retaliatory attack on Pakistan, Chari said.

5.   Another consideration is the attitude of the Middle Eastern oil states to any retaliatory attack by the United States, which remains uncertain.

6.   As U.S.-led forces began a second night of bombing in Afghanistan, officials warned of the heightened probability of retaliatory attacks in the United States.

7.   At home, meanwhile, security was tightened at airports, the Capitol and other federal buildings, to guard against any retaliatory terrorist attacks.

8.   But the Palestinians anticipated retaliatory attacks, and they cleared out predictable target sites, and schools and offices closed early.

9.   But the Serb family fled during the Serb military pullout, saying their knowledge that massacres were taking place left them vulnerable to retaliatory attacks.

10.   He also cannot help but have noticed Israeli military preparations for intensified retaliatory attacks against Palestinian-ruled areas and administrative offices.