1.   An army unit posted to the compound obstructed the police, leading to the botched operation, one minister said.

2.   As for the bomb planted in the Business School at the U. of Utah, that was a botched operation.

3.   In an interview two weeks ago, an IRA member suggested the botched operations were the result of inexperience.

4.   Mrs. Ayyappan is the cancer patient who underwent a botched operation in May for a brain tumor at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

5.   The Canadian government, enraged that the Israeli Mossad used forged Canadian passports in the botched operation, did recall its ambassador to Israel.

6.   The inaction makes for a curious and troubling legacy of the botched operations that resulted in deaths on both sides at Waco and Ruby Ridge.

7.   The senior surgeon stepped in to salvage the botched operation, and because the surgery had just begun, managed to keep her entire clitoris intact.

8.   There was no hard evidence that the fracas over the botched operation in Jordan contributed to bringing Netanyahu and Arafat together.

9.   This time Cross is trying to recover from a botched undercover operation that took the life of his partner in a paroxysm of second-rate computer graphic effects.

10.   Abdel-Majid was quoted as saying she had been unable to become pregnant following a botched operation six years ago.