1.   Three foreign diplomats have been killed in a series of assassinations.

2.   Greek businessmen have been blown up, prosecutors have been shot in the kneecaps and Turkish diplomats have been killed.

3.   It killed Turkish diplomats in the United States and elsewhere, and bombed targets including the Turkish Airlines counter at Orly Airport in Paris.

4.   Taliban officials have refused an Iranian demand that those who killed the diplomats be surrendered to Iran for trial here.

5.   The consulate had closed briefly after the diplomats were killed, Aliabad said, but even the Taliban soon recognized they needed Iranian representation in Herat.

6.   The effort was halted nine days ago when three American diplomats were killed in a road accident.

7.   Yet over the years, there has been only one known assassination attempt on U.N. territory, although diplomats have been killed on city streets.

8.   A few weeks ago, Marat was transferred to Gujranwala from nearby Multan, where an Iranian diplomat was killed in a February attack on an Iranian cultural center.

9.   A Greek diplomat was killed by automatic weapons-fire Thursday in the Georgian capital Tbilisi, police said.

10.   A Russian diplomat was killed in a road accident Thursday, the embassy said.