101. Staff dismissed some reported attacks as consensual sex. 102. State and local law enforcement officials have made no arrests and decline to say whether they regard the attacks as homophobic. 103. Some Muslim clerics denounced the nighttime attacks as assaults on Islam. 104. That chart had protecting the United States from terrorist attack as the first priority, and preventing foreign spying and espionage as second. 105. That sparked a furious barrage of attacks and counter attacks as groups kept forming, splintering and forming anew. 106. The Bush administration clearly regards identifying and taking action against those associated with these specific attacks as the first step of a broader campaign against terrorism generally. 107. The Bush administration sees the attacks as an opportunity to push harder than ever for a new round of negotiations that would pull down more trade barriers. 108. The danger is that investors will see the attack as evidence of weakness and uncertainty in the economy. 109. The First Amendment, especially, is under attack as never before. 110. The group was formed days after the attacks as business owners noticed that they were losing customers. |