11.   In a botched attempt to capture M. Hanoud last August, three Israeli soldiers were killed, apparently by their own comrades.

12.   Ironically, it seems that the botched attempt to remove Gingrich may have actually given the embattled speaker some breathing room.

13.   Israeli attention, however, remained riveted on the fallout of the botched attempt by a Mossad hit squad to kill a Hamas leader in Amman.

14.   Piazza, however, threw out Gomez on what looked to be a botched hit-and-run attempt with San Diego starter Sterling Hitchcock at the plate.

15.   Sharma said his all-time favorite cartoon dealt with the botched attempt to rescue American hostages in Iran during the Carter administration.

16.   The blast, according to Western officials, was a botched attempt by the Islamic unit to construct a powerful car bomb.

17.   The bombing, apparently a botched attempt, killed only the two bombers but provided ammunition to Israelis opposed to the peace plan.

18.   The Rams also had another botched attempt on their first series of the game.

19.   Yossi Melman, a writer on security matters for the newspaper Haaretz, was one of the fiercest critics of the botched attempt on Meshal.

20.   Police investigations indicated there were at least eight botched attempts to torch other parts of the school, Hamidah said.