Word: alertness
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...military commander of Hamas in a Gaza air raid that also killed 14 Palestinian civilians. On Tuesday, Israeli security forces had foiled two planned attacks, but a third bomber managed to injure a handful of civilians at a Jerusalem falafel stand. And those forces had been on maximum alert in Jerusalem at the very moment when a bomb planted in a campus cafeteria and detonated by cellular phone killed seven people and wounded 86. And even before the blood had been cleaned away, Hamas warned that Wednesday's carnage was but the first of a salvo of attacks planned...
...Earlier this week, a security alert left thousands of Israelis stuck for hours at military roadblocks or remaining indoors (an ironic parallel with Palestinian life on the West Bank). The security clampdown worked, that day, and the terror suspects apparently left the area. But media commentators noted that even when the terror is foiled, Israelis pay a heavy price. And the same region went back on full alert Thursday...
...Hamas has vowed to strike back with suicide bombings, and Israel is on full alert. Shehade may have been a key leader of the organization, but Israelis know his supporters will do their utmost to extract a terrible price for his killing. Hamas and other Palestinian factions will almost certainly try to infiltrate bombers from the West Bank into Israel, but reaching Israeli cities is exceedingly difficult from Gaza, which, unlike the West Bank, is separated from Israel by a border fence. Israeli settlements and military outposts in Gaza are the more likely targets of revenge attacks. The air strike...
...AIDS ALERT In this, the third decade of the AIDS epidemic, many young gay men still don't know whether they are infected with the AIDS virus. Researchers tested 6,000 men who frequent gay hangouts in New York, Dallas and four other U.S. cities and found that among those who had HIV, 90% of blacks, 70% of Hispanics and 60% of whites said they had no idea they were infected. The problem: not knowing who's carrying the AIDS virus makes it all the more difficult to stop its spread. --By Janice M. Horowitz...
...find ourselves more inclined to envision potential terrorist scenarios we know nothing about because we have been asked by government officials to be more alert. Being more alert entails being more imaginative—after all, who saw crashing two planes into the Twin Towers as a legitimate terrorist option before last year? Eyes and ears become open to a host of horrific but suddenly and agonizingly plausible scenarios. In our eyes, trash receptacles become potential hiding places for sarin gas canisters. Mid-sized office buildings, no matter their unimportance, become potential targets for al Qaeda and require increased security...