61.  Both intelligence and defense officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it bears hallmarks of previous attacks by Shining Path, a Maoist rebel group.

62.  Burgener said the area had been hard-hit by ethnic fighting but he was not aware of any previous attacks on humanitarian staff in the area.

63.  But a spokesman for the ethnic Muttahida Qami Movement said Haider also belonged to that group whose members have been targeted in previous attacks.

64.  But reports of previous attacks on rebel leaders have been contradictory and unreliable.

65.  But militant Sunni Muslims have been implicated in previous attacks on Iranians.

66.  But the name given as the sender was the same as in previous attacks.

67.  Despite previous attacks little has been done to protect them.

68.  Echoes of previous attack.

69.  Following previous attacks, Arafat has rounded up militants only to let them go shortly afterward without charging them.

70.  Following previous attacks, Arafat has rounded up militants only to let them go without trial shortly afterward.