1.   A senior official of a foreign intelligence service confirmed earlier this week that his government had learned of a warning that preceded the attack.

2.   Jan Arell, of The Goteborg Post, said the attack had been preceded by nearby antiaircraft fire.

3.   One of the witnesses interviewed by the police was a doctor who apparently saw the confrontation that preceded the attack from the window of his Central Park West apartment.

4.   One of the witnesses interviewed by police was a doctor who apparently saw the confrontation that preceded the attack from the window of his Central Park West apartment.

5.   The report portrays an organization weak on analysis and slow to respond to accumulating warnings in the months that preceded the attacks.

6.   The Secret Service still investigates all people who make a threat, but it no longer assumes that a threat precedes an attack.

7.   Ahmed said the arrests in Egypt came several weeks ago, indicating they preceded the attacks on the United States.

8.   In both cases, there were no demands made or manifestoes issued, and no threats preceded the attacks.

9.   Minani said a firefight between the army and the Hutu rebels preceded the attack at Ruyigi, but he did not know if the two were connected.

10.   Most villagers had taken shelter in cellars from the shelling that preceded the attack.