41.   Despite the denials, Prime Miniser Lee Hong-Koo has instructed that a public office should investigate the scandal to dispel public suspicions.

42.   Mary Ramadan of the Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee said she believes public suspicion against Arabs has not changed since the bombing.

43.   Public suspicion for the blast has immediately fallen on ethnic-Uighur Moslems from the far northwest region of Xinjiang.