21.   But only blocks away the death toll from brutal revenge attacks was mounting.

22.   But without overwhelming NATO military strength inside Kosovo, the alliance will not be able to intimidate local combatants or deter revenge attacks.

23.   Companies often fear that they will lose business if security breaches become public or that they will become the target of revenge attacks.

24.   Executions, they maintain, create martyrs and could provoke revenge attacks that would endanger Israelis.

25.   Fearing a revenge attack on the settlers living on Shuhada Street, the Israeli Army barred Arab traffic and set up checkpoints at both ends of the road.

26.   Indeed, they said it is rare for witnesses to become the victims of revenge attacks in cases like this one.

27.   No such revenge attacks have been reported, however, a UN spokesman in Kabul said.

28.   On his visit to Kosovo last month, President Clinton implored the majority Albanians to forgive the Serbs who remained and to end the revenge attacks.

29.   On a practical level, few dispute that each killing radicalizes more Palestinians with anger and probably inspires revenge attacks.