21.   A military source described the attack as a carefully laid ambush that might have been carried out by a single gunman.

22.   After questioning the man, police on the Caribbean island described the attack during a Sunday Mass as religiously motivated.

23.   Ahmed had described attacks by rebels against government posts and forces along the strategic highway linking Khartoum to the Red Sea port of Port Sudan as legitimate acts.

24.   Authorities usually describe the attacks as the result of robbery or other common crime.

25.   Authorities have described the attack as a random act of violence that was not aimed at the church.

26.   Graf described the attack as one of the most gruesome killings in the province in recent months because women and children were targeted.

27.   He described the attack, which took place one week ago, as Red Cross workers treated the wounds in his back.

28.   He described an attack on money-changers that he witnessed Sunday.

29.   Igor Sukhov, a private who was wounded in the attack, described the attack from his hospital bed Saturday.

30.   In a long and elaborate explanation, Brig. Gen. Dan Leaf, commander of the air wing at Aviano air base in Italy, described attacks on two convoys.