The police blamed "enemies of Afghanistan" and said they had arrested eight suspects.

The official blamed corrupt law enforcement agencies and powerful corporate enemies, and denied that the Kremlin was involved.

Ayatollah Khamenei also blamed "enemies," including the United States, for the attack on the dormitory.

When he finally arrived home, several days later, he held a press conference, at which he blamed unspecified "enemies of peace" for the violence.

Colonel Ahmed Usman blamed "foreign enemies" of supporting the violence.

Some states have striven to overcome domestic failure and internal contradictions by blaming external enemies.

The interior minister, Ali Ahmed Jalali, said he believed that the two attacks were linked, and he blamed "enemies of Afghanistan."

Blaming non-existent enemies for the accident that transformed them, the paranoid villains attempted to take revenge on the entire world.

He liked to blame enemies in the press or the Republicans for these double-bind situations.

Another was to blame unnamed enemies for trying to undermine Clinton.