Example sentences of "claimed responsibility for the " in BNC.

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1 Although no one had claimed responsibility for the attack by last night , it was apparently being treated as a terrorist incident by the Belgian police .
2 The Irish National Liberation Army has claimed responsibility for the shooting .
3 One of the men , Declan Derek Duffy , 19 , known as ‘ Wacko , ’ has tattooed on his left hand the initials INLA — standing for Irish National Liberation Army which has claimed responsibility for the murder of Sgt Michael Newman , 34 .
4 Indeed , I understand that the Ping Tiao have claimed responsibility for the act . ’
5 However , a PFLP-GC statement broadcast by Al-Quds on Feb. 7 pointed out that it had never claimed responsibility for the attack .
6 The Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front ( FPMR-A ) also claimed responsibility for the attack , describing it as an act of " popular justice " .
7 No group had claimed responsibility for the kidnappings but a statement issued by the Palestinian Revolutionary Factions ( PRF , a group believed to have links with the radical Fatah Revolutionary Council or " Fatah rebels " ) on Aug. 7 claimed that Christen and Erriquez would be released within 24 hours .
8 The Soldiers for Justice group had already claimed responsibility for the murder in March 1989 of the head of the Moslem community in Belgium [ see p. 36538 ] , and for the 1988 kidnapping in Lebanon of a Belgian doctor , Jan Cools , who was freed on June 15 , 1989 [ see pp. 36365 ; 37164 ] .
9 He had publicly claimed responsibility for the theft of arms and ammunition from the South African Air Force headquarters in April and for bomb attacks on offices of the National Party .
10 The unit had claimed responsibility for the assassination of over 300 troops , policemen and government officials since 1984 .
11 Two groups of the extreme left — the Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front ( FPMR ) and the Mapu Latero — were reported to have claimed responsibility for the murder .
12 The left-wing Dev Sol group was reported to have claimed responsibility for the fatal wounding in the southern city of Adana on May 23 of Brig. -Gen .
13 The IRA also claimed responsibility for the killing of two civilians on Jan. 14 and 15 ( in the latter case a Catholic who , the IRA later admitted , had been shot " in error " ) .
14 The Turkish Foreign Ministry said that the previously unknown Islamic Revenge Organization ( IRO ) had claimed responsibility for the killing in Ankara on March 7 of Ehud Saha , the security chief at the Israeli embassy there .
15 The Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) later claimed responsibility for the attack , the first to cause civilian deaths on the mainland since February 1991 [ see pp. 38019-20 ] .
16 The IRA has claimed responsibility for the car bomb which exploded near Downing Street this morning .
17 So far no one has claimed responsibility for the bombs but an Animal Liberation Front supporter passing the Minister Lovell incident denied any knowledge .
18 The UFF has claimed responsibility for the killing early today of father-of-six Michael Edwards , at his Finaghy home , while an IRA van bomb devastated the centre of Armagh .
19 The outlawed Ulster Freedom Fighters later claimed responsibility for the shooting .
20 No one has claimed responsibility for the Bombay blasts .
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