The bus attack brought all discussion of the nation's political crisis to a halt.

Tourism to Egypt did fall off dramatically after the bus attack.

Israel, that most security-conscious of nations, has found bus attacks nearly impossible to stop.

A Jewish woman and her three children were burned to death in the bus attack.

A single bus attack is unlikely to cause structural damage or kill great numbers of people.

In most cases, homes are blown up for offenses far less severe than the bus attack, usually not involving death or serious injury.

But someone had decided that allowing events like the bus attack to vary the schedule was giving in to terrorism.

Israel believes that members of a Fatah paramilitary group carried out yesterday's bus attack.

The incident was named the "mothers' bus attack" because many of the passengers were working mothers.

The timing raised suspicions of a link to the bus attack.