21.   Guests said they were not mistreated but were not allowed to leave the grounds.

22.   Hotel guests said the building, in the Chinatown district of northern Jakarta, was evacuated.

23.   Not so, said the guests at the exhibit at the Iraqi Heritage Center in Or Yehuda, southeast of Tel Aviv.

24.   One guest said the wedding blessings had just been completed and the dancing had begun when the floor caved in.

25.   Some hotel guests said they did not hear the blast.

26.   Guests said soldiers later barged into the Taj, and began a room-to-room sweep for possible Tamil Tigers.

27.   Another guest said the police seemed to have simply told the hotel that the organisers had not gained authorisation to hold an event of this size.