1.   But security officials also noted several signs of amateurish work.

2.   For example, zoo security officials were told of one man who was boasting of his plans to steal exotic birds.

3.   The local authorities had been accused by security officials and the Soviet press of laxity or even connivance.

4.   Security officials feared that it was re-establishing itself in the region, possibly with the help of the small Catalan secessionist group Terra Lliure.

5.   In Moscow, a senior air transport security official confirmed yesterday that a Russian airport worker had smuggled two hand grenades aboard the hijacked plane.

6.   Already, security officials have arrested several dozen people every day this week trying to sneak into Ayodhya.

7.   Although many other airports across the nation have reopened to private cars, security officials remain worried about the possibility of a car or truck bomb adjacent to LAX.

8.   American law enforcement, intelligence and national security officials are divided on some fundamental issues.

9.   Among other things, Deutch refused to be questioned by security officials, and the senior officials allowed him not to be questioned.

10.   Although security officials were still writing up their report on the matter at the time, she was not involved in its drafting, the spokesman said.