Word: ambush
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...Three months ago, Wednesday's Tel Aviv suicide bombing and Tuesday's ambush of a busload of settlers at the Immanuel settlement might have triggered an invasion of Palestinian cities and air strikes on Palestinian Authority security installations. But the seven major Palestinian cities on the West Bank, whence the culprits in the latest attacks are likely to have come, have been under the control of the Israeli Defense Force for the past three weeks, with residents - and PA security personnel - subject to almost constant curfew. Israeli spokesmen once again blamed the new outrages on the Palestinian Authority...
...Israeli forces hunted the perpetrators of the Immanuel attack, who escaped after disguising themselves in Israeli uniforms to launch a deadly ambush, Defense Minister Benjamin Ben Eliezer announced the suspension of measures planned to ease the suffering of the impoverished residents of the reoccupied sections of the West Bank. But maintaining the iron grip may ultimately prove to be self-defeating: Israel had planned to ease the burden of its reoccupation of West Bank towns out of recognition that the rage and despair fueled by its stranglehold over Palestinian daily life fuels sustains, rather than discourages terrorism. An Israeli officer...
...Palestinian suicide bombers killed three Israelis in Tel Aviv, late Wednesday, one day after an ambush on a busload of Israeli settlers on the West Bank left seven dead. But although the latest attacks coincided with Mideast talks in New York between representatives of the U.S., the European Union, Russia and the United Nations, their purpose is unlikely to have been simply to derail diplomacy - because neither the extremists nor anyone else in the Middle East have much reason to suspect that the current round of talks will have much significance for the situation on the ground...
...looks as if Ben will be captured by the Japanese. Joe, however, is a bit shell-shocked, or as we now say, suffering post-traumatic stress syndrome. He has followed orders before, and, as a result, is the sole, death-haunted survivor of a unit he led into an ambush. He resolves not to become too close to a man he may have to kill. But the Navajo is a charmer, and the movie heads toward an utterly predictable ending, during the battle for Saipan, that is both culturally reconciling and personally tragic...
...records of failure to act against human trafficking. U.S. legislation, passed in 2000, calls for economic sanctions against countries that do not take action to halt trafficking or help its victims. MEXICO Logging Massacre A land dispute that has festered since 1935 claimed 26 victims in Oaxaca state. An ambush of sawmilll workers left 87 children fatherless in the mountain village of Xochiltepec, which is in dispute with a neighboring town over clearance and logging rights to 8,000 hectares of land. The state government lists some 360 territorial disputes in Oaxaca, with the Xochiltepec conflict...