21.   Before the latest attacks, Israel had already started working on a fence walling itself off from the West Bank.

22.   But little is known of what - if any - degree of political organisation lies behind the latest attacks.

23.   But more will die with the latest attacks on Afghanistan.

24.   But many analysts have linked the latest attacks to the bloodshed in the Middle East and to Arab anger at Israel and Jews.

25.   But the government, alarmed at the latest attacks, now intends to sign the treaty by the end of the year.

26.   But the latest terrorist attacks hammered that possibility home, especially since law enforcement believes several of the suspects communicated online.

27.   But the police seem certain the date of the latest attack was no coincidence.

28.   But the latest attacks have convinced U.S. policy-makers that they must now destroy the infrastructure as well as the terrorists themselves.

29.   But the perpetrators of the latest attacks on the United States are more elusive.

30.   But the U.S. and British governments warn against travel by road, rail or river through the three provinces, where the latest attacks took place.