The mosque had been depicted by European antiterrorism investigators as a focus of terrorist planning.

We've been making use of the budget you gave us for European investigators.

American and European investigators said they were trying to determine whether the banks knew they were being used for illegal financial dealings with Iraq.

The European investigators calculated that in 1992 alone, some 20,000 Muslim women and girls were raped by Serbs.

Today, the European investigators said they stand by their assessment.

"The real alarm was Christmas last year," a senior European investigator said this week.

The European investigators chose not to single out any particular contractor or department for blame.

Now, senior British and other European investigators say they are convinced that the cell responsible for the bombings had executed a well-thought-out plan.

Here's to European private investigators, then, and let us hope we will soon be able to vote for such a directive.

European investigators tend to rely on radiographic rather than surgico-pathologic assessment of retroperitoneal lymph node involvement.