1.   People are afraid to venture out for fear of sniper attacks.

2.   The incident followed several days of intermittent sniper attacks on Israeli forces in the area, claimed by Fatah Uprising, a Syrian-based Palestinian group.

3.   As recently as Friday morning, Slepian received a two-page warning from the downtown Buffalo clinic where he worked urging him to beware of sniper attacks.

4.   But it would also expand the risk to Americans from sniper attacks, land mines and booby traps.

5.   But the police said he had been ruled out in sniper attacks on the Southern State Highway in Nassau County in June.

6.   Five days ago, in a suburb of Buffalo, N.Y., a similar sniper attack ended the career of another obstetrician, Dr. Barnett Slepian.

7.   Four people, three of them children, were killed in the shelling and in sniper attacks and six others were wounded.

8.   In the evening, a sniper attack on an Israeli truck near a Jewish settlement in Gaza resulted in the death of the civilian driver.

9.   Investigators in Canada and the United States are also looking into four other sniper attacks on doctors who performed abortions in Canada and western New York.

10.   More law-enforcement officers were brought in after two callers threatened sniper attacks.