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...prisoners. After all, he faces unrelenting pressure from Israel and the U.S. to do more to crack down on terrorism, and pays a political price for any perceived failure. Further, he believes the situation is deteriorating because of what he sees as negligence on the part of his security apparatus. Three months ago, Arafat reportedly unleashed a similar (though not physical) tirade against his Gaza security chief, Mohammed Dahlan...
...troops in Afghanistan, 3,000 occupy Kandahar airport and 500 are stationed at the air base in Bagram. Al-Qaeda elements "probed" the Kandahar airport to test its security apparatus and were sent fleeing. At Bagram, just keeping watch over 50 detainees, among them Pakistanis, Moroccans, Chechens and British Muslims, is hazardous duty for the 65th Military Police company. Inmates have been found with razors, money and pens sewn into their clothing even after repeated searches. If a suspected terrorist should manage to get beyond the 8-ft.-high razor wire, the procedure is simple. "We tell 'em three times...
...troops in Afghanistan, 3,000 occupy Kandahar airport and 500 are stationed at the air base in Bagram. Al-Qaeda elements "probed" the Kandahar airport to test its security apparatus and were sent fleeing. At Bagram, just keeping watch over 50 detainees, among them Paki- stanis, Moroccans, Chechens and British Muslims, is hazardous duty for the 65th Military Police company. Inmates have been found with razors, money and pens sewn into their clothing even after repeated searches. If a suspected terrorist should manage to get beyond the 8-ft.-high razor wire, the procedure is simple. "We tell 'em three...
Israel has tried and failed to decapitate Hamas, and that task, should he take it on, would be no easier for Arafat. There is no mastermind without whom the military apparatus falls apart. After all, its actions are cheap and simple and take no special genius: hit-and-run attacks on Israeli soldiers, suicide bombings. So whenever one set of leaders is assassinated or rounded up, it's easy for another to take its place. In the past few months, Hamas has instituted a multitiered system of automatic replacements, borrowed from the communist underground of the 1950s. In each city...
Ranging from the mysterious to the chilling, documents and weapons found by TIME in visits to seven abandoned al-Qaeda safe houses in Kabul last week depict an organizationally and technically sophisticated apparatus. The discoveries--including detailed personnel records for fighters, crates of French-made MILAN antitank missiles and sketches illustrating the ideal place to hide a bomb on an airplane--may help authorities trace the terror network and thwart future attacks...