11.   One item contained a vaguely threatening message on a coat of arms, and the other consisted of photocopies of meticulously cut and pasted anti-abortion literature.

12.   Threatening messages have been left on the answering machine of Dallas Massey, the tribal chairman, laying blame for the fire at the feet of the Apache.

13.   Threatening messages wrapped around rocks were thrown through the windows.

14.   A teen-ager accused of sending threatening Internet messages to San Diego-area students three days after a fatal school shooting there faces an extradition hearing Friday.

15.   A teen-ager was sentenced Friday to six months in jail for sending threatening Internet messages to San Diego-area students just days after a fatal school shooting there.

16.   Additionally, one official who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the two letters contained threatening messages that were similar to one another.

17.   Alon Richtman of Haifa is accused of leaving the threatening message on the answering machine of opposition legislator Limor Livnat, Jerusalem police spokesman Shmuel Ben-Ruby said.

18.   Another official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the letters contained similar threatening messages.

19.   But the threatening messages disturbed her.

20.   For a start, the threatening messages Premsak claimed to have received turned out to have originated from calls made from his mobile phone to his pager.