31.   The group pledged to kill other diplomats involved in similar activities.

32.   The Taliban, the conservative religious militia ruling much of Afghanistan, has admitted that its forces killed the diplomats.

33.   There were some reports from Tehran that the authorities there feared the diplomats had been killed by Taliban troops.

34.   There were other reports that the Iranian diplomats were killed.

35.   Three senior U.S. diplomats were killed.

36.   Two American diplomats were killed and one was injured Wednesday when attackers sprayed their van with bullets as they headed to the U.S. consulate, officials said.

37.   Two U.S. diplomats were killed and one was wounded Wednesday morning when attackers sprayed their van with bullets as they headed to their consulate.

38.   Two Polish diplomats have been killed in a road accident on the Syrian-Lebanese border, sources at their embassy said Wednesday.

39.   A few days earlier an Egyptian diplomat was killed in Switzerland.

40.   Egypt charges that Ayman al-Zawahri, head of the underground Jihad movement, lives in Geneva, where an Egyptian diplomat was killed last week.