1.   Police attribute this and a series of hotel bombings in Mediterranean resort areas to the Basque separatist group ETA, which is fighting for an independent Basque homeland.

2.   That allegation raises questions about whether American laws were broken in the Cuban hotel bombings, in which an Italian tourist was killed and three people were wounded.

3.   The hotel bombings were organized from El Salvador and Guatemala, Posada said.

4.   Opposition groups demanding political reforms and release of hundreds of prisoners detained in the unrest claimed responsibility for the earlier hotel bombings.

5.   Posada recently claimed responsibility for hotel bombings in Havana last year, saying he had been helped by Cuban exiles in the United States, but he later recanted.

6.   Posada said Mas was aware of the hotel bombings, which were organized from El Salvador and Guatemala.

7.   A Salvadoran man who confessed to a string of hotel bombings has been convicted of terrorism and sentenced to death by a Cuban tribunal, the government announced Tuesday.

8.   He also complained that the United States had ignored Cuban claims that the Cuban-American National Foundation in Miami was behind recent hotel bombings.

9.   He denies involvement in that incident but has admitted organizing hotel bombings in Cuba that killed an Italian tourist.

10.   Hundreds of people have been arrested as suspects in three hotel bombings, arson and sabotage of restaurants, bank machines as well as other private and public property.