1.   A human rights group has blamed the riots on the rival group and the security forces.

2.   Art Hanger, a member of Parliament for the conservative Reform Party, blamed the riot on lax discipline by authorities who had tolerated the formation of inmate gangs.

3.   Authorities, however, blamed the riots on leftist groups, accusing them of trying to topple the government.

4.   Flosse blamed the riots on the independence movement, foreign journalists and Greenpeace.

5.   Flosse blamed the riots on the independence movement, foreign journalists and Greenpeace, which he said had reignited the independence movement.

6.   He blamed the riots on the independence movement, Greenpeace, and foreign journalists.

7.   It also blamed food riots last month on Iraq and pro-Iraqi Jordanians.

8.   Official blames riots on bizarre Islamic sect.

9.   The government blamed the riots on the Iraqi government and a local pro-Iraqi political party.

10.   The government, whipping a familiar scapegoat, blamed the riots on profiteering by unscrupulous white businessmen.