Example sentences of "claim responsibility for " 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 group has also claimed responsibility for a string of murders of journalists and other civic leaders opposed to the cartels and in favour of Mr Barco 's decree authorising the drug traffickers ' extradition to the US . |
| 3 | The Irish National Liberation Army has claimed responsibility for the shooting . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Indeed , I understand that the Ping Tiao have claimed responsibility for the act . ’ |
| 6 | However , a PFLP-GC statement broadcast by Al-Quds on Feb. 7 pointed out that it had never claimed responsibility for the attack . |
| 7 | The Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front ( FPMR-A ) also claimed responsibility for the attack , describing it as an act of " popular justice " . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ] . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The unit had claimed responsibility for the assassination of over 300 troops , policemen and government officials since 1984 . |
| 12 | Responsibility was claimed by the Islamic Jihad Movement — Bayt al-Maqdis ( Jerusalem ) , which had also claimed responsibility for an attack on an Israeli tour bus in Egypt in February 1990 [ see pp. 37265-66 ] , and which in late October had been declared illegal in Israel and the occupied territories . |
| 13 | Dev Sol also claimed responsibility for bomb explosions in the grounds of the French consulate in Istanbul on Feb. 9 . |
| 14 | The leftist November 17 group was reported to have claimed responsibility for bomb attacks in Athens on March 12 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | On April 3 the People 's Revolutionary Struggle ( ELA ) and the May 1 group jointly claimed responsibility for an explosion outside UN offices and for placing bombs under European diplomats ' cars . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 " ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ] . |
| 21 | It was the first time the FIS had claimed responsibility for a violent incident . |
| 22 | Both groups had claimed responsibility for an assassination attempt on Antonio Rios , former president of the Confederation of Workers of Venezuela ( CTV ) and a leading member of the ruling Democratic Action ( AD ) party , who had recently resigned from his post to face trial on charges of influence peddling . |
| 23 | * A US-based group , Sea Shepherd , has claimed responsibility for sabotaging a whaling ship in northwestern Norway in December . |
| 24 | The IRA has claimed responsibility for the car bomb which exploded near Downing Street this morning . |
| 25 | So far no one has claimed responsibility for the bombs but an Animal Liberation Front supporter passing the Minister Lovell incident denied any knowledge . |
| 26 | The UVF and UFF have claimed responsibility for two murders each . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The outlawed Ulster Freedom Fighters later claimed responsibility for the shooting . |
| 29 | No one has claimed responsibility for the Bombay blasts . |
| 30 | Unlike many terrorists , Iranian or Iranian-linked groups often do not claim responsibility for atrocities they commit . |