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...Hong Kong warrant for Fung’s arrest, issued on Dec. 21, 2001, describes his nationality as British and Canadian...
After his arrest Friday, Fung appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Joyce London, where the U.S. Attorney’s office argued that Fung was “likely to flee if released,” according to court papers...
...concession that he made. He is eager to attend a summit of Arab leaders in Beirut later this month so that he can show he remains relevant on the world stage. But since December, the Israelis have kept him pinned inside the West Bank city of Ramallah, demanding the arrest of all suspects in the assassination of Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi. With the detention of the final fugitive, Majdi Rimawi, Sharon has lost much of his justification for confining Arafat to Ramallah, but he will have to convince right-wingers in his Cabinet before lifting the blockade...
Even before Rimawi's arrest, Arafat was recalibrating his strategy. Aides tell TIME he was disturbed by a March 2 suicide bombing in Jerusalem by activists of his own Fatah organization. The attack struck a community--the ultra-Orthodox Jews of Jerusalem's poor central district--that is relatively moderate in its view of relations with the Palestinians. The bomb wiped out a family, the Nehmads--two parents and their two children, a nephew and two cousins...
...week, the Israeli army reinvaded or bombed 15 Palestinian towns. Among the targeted sites were several camps housing refugee families from the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, compounds that are often hotbeds of militancy. The army's operations inside these camps are intended in part to enable soldiers to arrest bombmakers and gunmen, though the wanted men are often able to flee in time. A greater benefit of these operations, TIME has learned from senior Israeli officers, is to force the gunmen from the Tanzim, a Fatah militia, to exert their energy by defending their homes in the camps instead...