1.   Small scale attacks, however, are more unpredictable and can prove severely demoralizing.

2.   After suffering near daily casualties in small scale rebel attacks, Russian forces have intensified their activity in the republic in recent weeks.

3.   He said the focus is on larger scale attacks in an urban area, not the relatively limited hazard posed by the mailed germs.

4.   Israeli authorities are investigating whether a bomb explosion in the coastal city of Netanya early Sunday was a thwarted attempt by militants to carry out a large scale attack.