1.   A tangle of clues includes a postponed trip, a broken leg, reports of a roadside ambush, and the untimely death of a provincial governor.

2.   Last month his driver was killed in a roadside ambush.

3.   Opposition leaders have been killed in roadside ambushes and their homes have been fire-bombed.

4.   Palestinian gunmen have been staging roadside ambushes and drive-by shootings against settlers in recent weeks.

5.   Palestinian gunmen have been staging roadside ambushes and drive-by shootings targeting Jewish settlers in the West Bank.

6.   About a dozen groups have been robbed at gunpoint in recent weeks, mostly in roadside ambushes.

7.   Also killed Friday was the suicide bomber, five Israelis at the mall and an Israeli motorist who was shot in a West Bank roadside ambush.

8.   Also Friday, hundreds of mourners buried an Israeli teen-ager who was killed in a roadside ambush.

9.   An Israeli was seriously injured in a roadside ambush near the West Bank settlement of Naaleh, west of Ramallah, settlers said.

10.   An Israeli teen-ager from the Jewish settlement of Ofra, between Ramallah and Nablus, was shot and killed Thursday in a roadside ambush.