71.   Police sources said preliminary indications suggested the blasts were a terrorist attack.

72.   A half-mile up the road, deep into Protestant territory, Julie Boyle also hoped the blast was an aberration.

73.   A few minutes after the explosion, regional police commander Aharon Franco said the blast was criminally motivated, not a Palestinian bomb attack.

74.   Amit said the blast was a bomb, most likely set off by a suicide bomber.

75.   As the leaders held closing news conferences, some of them repeated rumors sweeping Birmingham that a test blast was set off in Pakistan earlier Sunday.

76.   At first, some Toulouse residents thought the blast was a terror attack.

77.   Authorities said the blast was accidental and not the work of Kurdish rebels as initially suggested.

78.   At the funeral, Palestinians said the blast was an Israeli operation aimed at killing the group members.

79.   Ben Salem said he did not think the blast was the result of an attack, but it was not immediately clear what led authorities to believe that.

80.   Blasts were heard miles away and also anti-aircraft defense fire.