51. Any IRA violence in the predominantly Protestant province would be likely to provoke retaliatory attacks on Catholics by pro-British extremists from Protestant neighborhoods. 52. As the battle raged in the north, the capital of Colombo prepared for rebel retaliatory attacks. 53. As the battle raged in the north, Colombo prepared for rebel retaliatory attacks. 54. Arsonists struck a Roman Catholic church before daybreak Tuesday, the latest in a series of retaliatory attacks aimed at exacting sectarian vengeance and striking fear into isolated communities. 55. Assassination unleashes string of retaliatory attacks against Catholics. 56. Authorities, fearing retaliatory attacks, deployed police at mosques throughout the country, and plainclothes officers were dispatched to many congested shopping districts in Lahore. 57. Azim Tariq, the leader of the Guardians of the Friends of the Prophet, had warned of retaliatory attacks. 58. Based on the assumption that if both the United States and Russia are vulnerable to a devastating retaliatory nuclear attack, neither would launch a first strike. 59. But the pro-Iranian guerrillas accused Israel of setting off the bomb as a pretext to justify retaliatory attacks. 60. Castano made an oblique assurance that no retaliatory attacks would occur. |