The gruesome attack can only be described as dastardly and cowardly. Its perpetrators deserve the severest condemnation of the entire global community.

[French President Jacques Chirac said the bombings left him] stunned and saddened, ... perpetrators of this cowardly attack.

senseless, inhuman and cowardly attack

We deplore in the strongest possible terms this apparent terrorist bombing.

If there is an attack on a nuclear plant with the weapons and tactics described -- weapons and tactics against which the Commission decided were not important to defend -- (the) records will reveal to the public exactly who ... dismissed the actual threats.

Silence is sometimes the severest criticism