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Arafat is the only leader in a position to put an end to the terror and establish a cease-fire. He must act now to arrest the Islamic militants who have launched wave after wave of suicide attacks on Israel over the past months. If he cannot control them, then it is time for the Palestinians to find a new leader. If Arafat has really lost control, it is in neither the Israelis’ nor the Palestinians’ interest to allow him to keep power any longer...
...Taliban spokesman said the agreement provided for Mullah Omar to remain in Kandahar under house arrest by Naqibullah. The Bush administration insists that the Taliban leader be punished for harboring terrorists, and not be allowed to remain in southern Afghanistan. More immediately, the U.S. would dearly love to talk to the Taliban leader about the whereabouts of his erstwhile guest (and alleged father-in-law) Osama bin Laden. But it remains to be seen whether the U.S. position is shared by Karzai...
...fragility of the Palestinian leader's grip on power was demonstrated in Gaza City where Hamas gunmen, supported by thousands of demonstrators, forced Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces to retreat from the home of the movement's leader, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, whom Arafat had ordered placed under house arrest...
...Israel suspended military action against the PA on Wednesday to give Arafat 12 hours to arrest a list of 36 terror-accused supplied by Israel. That follows Tuesday's withering barrage against targets associated with Arafat, which destroyed his helicopters in Gaza and a building adjacent to his Ramallah office. But despite the dramatic visuals, the strikes were a carefully calibrated symbolic use of Israel's awesome military power rather than a frontal assault on the PA. The Israelis were metaphorically shooting at Arafat's feet to get him dancing. The message: Launch a wholesale crackdown on Hamas and Islamic...
HUDS spokesperson Alix McNitt declined to comment on Dalla Santa’s arrest...