The latest violence came as the government was trying to address political fallout from attacks on Thursday, in which two bombs killed 96 people in an ethnic Hazara neighborhood in the southwestern city of Quetta.
Though the Pentagon was aware of those plants weeks ago, it refrained from bombing them, possibly out of concerns about the political and diplomatic fallout from attacks on facilities that could have legitimate agricultural or industrial purposes, or fear of spreading poisons.
For weeks, the United States and other nations appeared paralyzed, unclear whether Colonel Qaddafi's brutality would reach the level of genocide, while Robert M. Gates, then the defense secretary, fretted about the open-ended costs in the "ouster of a Middle Eastern leader" and the fallout from attacking "yet another Muslim country".
A3 Fallout From Attack in Gaza As Palestinians buried four family members killed by Israeli tank fire and vowed revenge, Israeli Defense Minister Benjamin Bexpressedregretessed regret over the loss of innocent lives.
And they have plans to try to limit the economic fallout from terrorist attacks, especially attacks against energy grids and pipelines, computer links, telecommunications and transportation.
But the fallout from the attacks has been a bigger blow to US Airways than any other airline.
The fallout from an attack on a private corporation could change from "being forced not to release a movie" to "actual, literal nuclear fallout" -- a much different level of societal danger.
And don't forget that people who lost a job before Sept. 11 are affected by the fallout from the attacks.
Turkish officials said Sunday that they had arrested nine people accused of carrying out twin bombings in a town near the Syrian border the day before, as the investigation moved at a clip that underscored the intense pressure on the government to contain the fallout from the attacks.
REYHANLI, Turkey — Turkish officials said Sunday that they had arrested nine people accused of carrying out twin bombings in this town near the Syrian border the day before, as the investigation moved at a clip that underscored the intense pressure on the government to contain the fallout from the attacks.
It is too soon to tell what the political fallout from the attacks will be.
