1.   President Vinicio Cerezo has blamed the killings on right-wing extremists trying to destabilise his government.

2.   Blaming the killings on paramilitaries they could not control, the police said the victims should be buried properly.

3.   But the story changed abruptly Friday night when Karzai blamed the killing on a personal vendetta.

4.   For example, instead of pinpointing top-echelon commanders like Grannobles or Jorge Briceno, the FARC initially blamed the killings on a rebel named Gildardo.

5.   India blames the killings on Islamic fundamentalist groups in the territory that it says are supported by Pakistan.

6.   Police blamed the killings of Mahood and a second man, Jackie Coulter, on the Ulster Volunteer Force.

7.   The ANC has blamed the killing on criminals.

8.   The interim government blamed the killings of at least a dozen demonstrators on neighborhood groups tied to the president.

9.   They have blamed the killings on his mental problems.

10.   They said the killing was wrongly blamed on white supremacists because two of the three men arrested had joined the Aryan Nation in prison.