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PHILIPPINES Hostages in Peril Police said they arrested two senior members of the al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf rebel group accused of kidnapping, murder and connections to bomb blasts in the city of General Santos last month. Officals said Salih Abdullah was an intelligence officer for the group, while Satar Yacub had been based on Basilan Island, where rebels are holding two U.S. citizens hostage. Earlier in the week, the group threatened to kill the couple, saying negotiations were closed...
...Ramallah deal is part of a broader attempt by the Bush administration, in concert with the Saudis, to calm the crisis in the Palestinian territories and revive movement towards Palestinian statehood. Media reports suggest President Bush and Crown Prince Abdullah have agreed to work together on a plan involving an end to all current Israeli incursions into Palestinian territories, a cease-fire and a renewal of negotiations over Palestinian statehood based on proposals brokered by the Clinton administration and discussed by the two sides at Taba through January...
...friends went to Franji in the early afternoon. One of them pushed Abdullah's bicycle up the sandy alley to her front door in Gaza's poor Sabra neighborhood. They had heard that Abdullah was dead, shot by masked policemen from Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority after he joined a rally by Hamas students that had passed by his school. The policemen fired into the crowd, and Abdullah took a round in the head. But none of Abdullah's friends wanted to be the one to tell Franji that the long battle for power between Arafat and the Islamists...
Franji found Abdullah laid out in the emergency room. She counted three stitches where doctors had sewn up the hole where the bullet had entered. There was blood all over. Someone had perfumed the boy's body, but she believed his sweet smell was, she later said, "a sign of Abdullah's acceptance by Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, who applies the scent of paradise." Recalling that Abdullah had still been fasting when he died, she says, "He broke his fast with Allah." The boy's family filed a suit against the Palestinian police, but Franji has no hope...
Bush maintains he has not abandoned the peace process. He is considering whether to call for an international peace conference aimed at establishing the terms of a political settlement between Israel and the Palestinians. White House sources say Bush will probably discuss the idea with Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah, who will visit Crawford, Texas, this week. But Bush's perceived approval of the Israeli military offensive has infuriated Arab leaders. The Saudis say that before agreeing to participate in peace talks, Abdullah will insist that Sharon lift the siege on Arafat, withdraw fully from the newly occupied territories and settle...