21.   All the attacks occurred shortly after dusk within a two-mile radius, police said.

22.   Allbaugh was attending a conference of state emergency response officials in Montana when the attacks occurred, but he immediately returned to Washington.

23.   All the attacks occurred within five miles, and last year officials said they believed the rapist was familiar with the neighborhood.

24.   But a spokesman for Hekmatyar said that no such attack had occurred.

25.   But even if cities were well equipped for a bioterrorist attack, they would still have a difficult time recognizing that such an attack had occurred.

26.   But he added that the United States had warned Croatia that such attacks might occur in response to the Croatian offensive in western Slavonia.

27.   But had the attack occurred during business hours, it could have cut off other users.

28.   But no attack occurred over the holiday.

29.   But reporters in Afghanistan who visited the area near where the CIA missile attack occurred have quoted civilians as saying the dead were local peasants.

30.   But serious questions remain about whether the federal death penalty could be applied to Moussaoui, who was in a Minnesota jail on immigration violations when the attacks occurred.