She emphasized that there had been five opportunities to put a seat belt on Gray, but they were ignored.
Both emphasized that there had already been wide distribution, both through leaks and official disclosures, of information about C.I.A. interrogation practices during the Bush administration.
With that apparently in mind, Frederica L. Miller, Mr. Miranda's lawyer, emphasized that there had not been a unified mob with a single goal.
Two days later, at a press conference, Putin emphasized that there had been "not a single shot, not a single victim".
Nigeria confirmed Monday that Africa's first bird flu epidemic had spread to three more states and the capital, Abuja, but emphasized that there had been no human infections, Agence Freportedesse reported.
Government officials in Washington also said the teenager might be Qusay Hussein's 14-year-old son, although they did not give the son's name and emphasized that there had been no final determination of the identity.
But he emphasized that there had been a sharp drop in murders and kidnappings across Colombia since he took power in 2002, developments he attributed in part to his government's demobilization of thousands of paramilitary combatants.
While the spread of the virus to an area outside the Shanghai region suggests a wider footprint of the H7N9 virus, health officials have emphasized that there have yet to been any confirmed cases of human-to-human transmission, which would suggest a mutation to a more virulent form of the virus.
One of the officials, who follows American military operations closely, said the Kenyan offensive had forced many Shabab fighters and commanders to disperse, making them easier potential targets, but emphasized that there had been "no U.S. military strikes in Somalia at all recently".
