31.   Among the messages were assurances that the U.S.-led attacks were aimed at terrorists and not the Afghan people, said one official familiar with the operation.

32.   Beit Sahour has been used as a base for Palestinian gunmen aiming their attacks at an Israeli army camp in an Israeli-controlled area of the West Bank.

33.   Bosnian Muslim officials claimed the attack was aimed at the joint Muslim-Croat police, only recently established, and the idea of the two ethnicities working together.

34.   But no attack was aimed directly against police.

35.   But the attacks were seldom aimed at people.

36.   But Western officials insisted the attack was not aimed at taking out Milosevic.

37.   Croatian officials said the grenade attacks were aimed at delaying the return of government rule to eastern Slavonia.

38.   Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has hinted that more attacks would be aimed at such targets.

39.   Dusan Jaksic, a local official, said the attack was aimed against the agreement.

40.   He said this attack was aimed at securing the Zagreb-Belgrade highway, and would be over soon.