For Larme Price, the man who the police say has confessed to four unprovoked killings in Brooklyn and Queens, life was increasingly controlled by vibes.

However,the majority of Israelis condemned the Underground's unprovoked killing of innocent civilians and contempt for secular law.

Guzman's policy was to "terrorize the natives with often unprovoked killing, torture, and enslavement".

Allegations of unprovoked killings first appeared last month when a retired Israeli General, Arieh Biroh, admitted he had killed Egyptian prisoners in the 1956 conflict with Egypt.

Palestinian shock at the unprovoked killings quickly turned to anger.

I haven't any patience for these unprovoked killings.

Provoked killings are generally thought to be less heinous than unprovoked killings, and provocation has long been accepted as a ground for reducing to manslaughter a killing which would otherwise fulfil the definition of murder.

A shopkeeper was shot to death and another worker critically injured at a Brooklyn bodega yesterday morning in a crime that police investigators say they believe is connected to four earlier unprovoked killings.

Accounts of indiscriminate killings by Shining Path guerrillas, trying to force people to join their ranks, and of unprovoked killings by the army, uncertain of its hidden enemy, are abundant.

In such defenses, a history of abuse is said to have created such a state of fear that even an unprovoked killing could be justified as self-defense.