Example sentences of "claimed responsibility for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Right-wing extremist group , the White Wolves , yesterday claimed responsibility for the attack . |
| 2 | The IRA yesterday claimed responsibility for the bomb outrage at the New Forest cottage owned by Alan Dysart , parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for … . |
| 3 | The Basque separatist organization Euskadi ta Askatasuna ( ETA ) claimed responsibility for the attacks . |
| 4 | Two groups claimed responsibility for the murder : one — Brussels-based — calling itself Young Palestine , Proud and Free the other , under the name Soldiers for Justice , claimed the killing from Lebanon . |
| 5 | A year earlier on Dec. 6 , 1988 , another bomb had exploded at the Free University , but no one claimed responsibility for the attacks . |
| 6 | On Nov. 7 , 1989 , the truce was broken by the FLNC which claimed responsibility for the bombing of two buildings under construction in Santa Lucia di Porto Vecchio in the north of the island . |
| 7 | The ELN claimed responsibility for the murder on Nov. 24 of Juan Barragán Ruiz , a Conservative Party ( PCC ) congressional deputy who was shot dead in the north-western city of Bucaramanga . |
| 8 | In a counterattack the FARC claimed responsibility for the bombing of a bus in Medellín on Dec. 12 in which seven police officers were killed ; for five widely separated attacks on Dec. 13 during which an Army helicopter was badly damaged and an unspecified number of soldiers killed ; for the dynamiting of a police post in Medellín on Dec. 15 ; and the blowing up of an aircraft at the Villa Garzon airport , 482 km south of Bogotá in the south-western region of Putumayo , on Dec. 16 ( all 19 passengers having been evacuated beforehand ) . |
| 9 | Members of the left-wing organization Dev Sol claimed responsibility for the killing in Ankara on Jan. 30 of Gen. ( retd ) Hulusi Sayin , commander from 1987 to 1989 of security forces fighting Kurdish guerrillas in the south-east . |
| 10 | No group claimed responsibility for the attack , but there was speculation that it might be the work either of a " freelance " splinter group in the Medellín drug cartel , or of the rival Cali drug cartel , since the Medellín cartel leaders themselves , and many of their followers , were loyal bullfight fans . |
| 11 | The IRA claimed responsibility for the station attacks , blaming the Victoria casualties on " the cynical decision … not to evacuate railway stations " after a caller had warned 45 minutes earlier that bombs were to go off at all mainline stations . |
| 12 | Members of the left-wing extremist group , Dev Sol claimed responsibility for the killing of a US civilian , Bobby Eugene Mozelle , at the Incirlik air base near Adana on Feb. 7 . |
| 13 | The left-wing extremist group Dev Sol claimed responsibility for the killing on March 22 in Istanbul of a US businessman . |
| 14 | The left-wing Dev Sol group claimed responsibility for the shooting of a policeman in Istanbul on April 5 , for the shooting of Gen. Memduh Unluturk at his Istanbul home on April 9 , and for nine bombs which damaged banks and business premises , but caused no injuries , in Istanbul and Adana on April 29-30 . |
| 15 | Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the attack , which took place on the eve of the opening of the Middle East peace conference in Madrid [ see p. 38513 ] . |
| 16 | A paramilitary group , the Anti-terrorist Commando of Peru ( Comando Antiterorrista del Perú ) , claimed responsibility for the mass murder of 16 street traders from Ayacucho department in Lima on Nov. 3 . |
| 17 | The National Liberation Movement ( MLN ) claimed responsibility for the explosion of a bomb outside the US embassy which was reported to have caused no damage . |
| 18 | In a statement released on Jan. 22 the Sendero Luminoso guerrilla movement claimed responsibility for the attack , which allegedly used surface-to-air missiles . |
| 19 | The UVF claimed responsibility for the shootings on Jan. 4 and Jan. 30 of Catholic civilians who it claimed were members of the IRA . |
| 20 | No-one claimed responsibility for the attack , but Hezbollah and Syria both blamed Israel . |
| 21 | A nationalist splinter group , the Irish People 's Liberation Organisation , claimed responsibility for the killing . |
| 22 | A statement sent to the Tunis bureau of the Agence France-Presse news agency on June 9 claimed responsibility for the killing on behalf of the Fatah Revolutionary Council , the Palestinian faction led by Abu Nidal . |
| 23 | One person was killed and six injured in Athens on July 14 when an anti-tank rocket narrowly missed Finance Minister Ioannis Paleokrassas ; the November 17 group claimed responsibility for the attack , which took place in Constitution Square , central Athens . |
| 24 | No organization claimed responsibility for the attack , the first such random bombing in the latest wave of unrest . |
| 25 | And last night the same group claimed responsibility for the murder of Roman Catholic Michael Edwards at his Finaghy home . |
| 26 | The UFF claimed responsibility for the murder of the 40-year-old , the fifth Catholic to die at the hands of loyalist terrorists within a week . |
| 27 | No-one claimed responsibility for the co-ordinated series of explosions across Bombay during a busy afternoon . |
| 28 | No-one claimed responsibility for the co-ordinated series of explosions across Bombay during a busy afternoon . |
| 29 | THE outlawed Ulster Freedom Fighters last night claimed responsibility for the murder of a Catholic man as he sat in a van on the outskirts of north Belfast . |
| 30 | The outlawed loyalist Ulster Freedom Fighters claimed responsibility for the murder and the bomb attack on the home of Gerard McGuigan . |