There was initial speculation that the bombings might have been the work of the P.K.K., or Kurdistan Workers Partyy, an insurgent group that has been fighting the Turkish Army for autonomy in the southeast area of the country adjoining Iraq.
Two weeks later, just as the country was beginning to overcome the initial shock of four suicide bombings that caused the deaths of 52 people and injured more than 950, many seriously, came the attempted bombings of 21 July.
Many of their hand-lettered signs criticized American policy toward Lebanon, in particular Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright's initial response to the power plant bombings, which was seen here as an endorsement of the Israeli action.
After the 1998 embassy bombings, Soufan helped assemble the initial evidence linking them to bin Laden.
Jeevan Thiagarajah, executive director of the Consortium of Humanitarian Agencies here, said initial reports from the area of the bombings suggested that thousands of people were fleeing in fear.
The group, known by its Spanish initials as FALN, committed violent acts including bombings, killings and kidnappings.
That initial assessment was based on the fact that car bombings were a standard technique of such organizations in the Middle East but have been virtually unknown in Iraq during the American-led occupation.
The Indonesian and Australian police, who have been jointly investigating the Bali bombings, said today that they had completed the initial forensic work and had information about three suspects.
Analyzing the data with open-access software, the researchers found that, after an initial gap between the first two "fatal days" (attacks or bombings resulting in deaths), subsequent attacks came faster and closer together in a way that follows a particular mathematical pattern.
It's true that he took up arms against the authorities, that he organised bombings to sabotage government buildings and that, despite his initial hope to avoid it, people died.
