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...informants whose main aim is not necessarily to smoke out al-Qaeda but to avenge old tribal vendettas. "Hot pursuit into Pakistan is acceptable if you're sure the bad guys are in your sights," explains a Western diplomat in Islamabad. "But if the Pentagon ends up dropping a bomb on women and kids because of bad intel, the U.S. has blown it with Pakistan...
...television, Israeli tanks torturing the streets of a refugee camp and soldiers raping its homes. She shocked us all when she declared that she would like to become a martyr. A few hours later, a young Palestinian woman stunned the world when she turned herself into a human bomb and exploded in Jerusalem, killing one Israeli and wounding 150 others. In the weeks after, more women joined the queue of suicide bombers as the world stood alarmed and bewildered...
...Such an attack almost happened in 1997 when a Palestinian immigrant named Ghazi Ibrahim Abu Maizar came within hours of detonating a pipe bomb, and himself, in a Brooklyn, N.Y., subway station used by many Orthodox Jews. His roommate, an Egyptian, discovered what he was up to and, aghast, tipped off local police, who foiled the plot with just hours to spare. Police found two fully rigged pipe bombs packed with nails and bullets in his apartment. Though the would-be suicide bomber wasn't working for any Palestinian group, his case suggests that Middle East violence could provoke independent...
...enforcement and intelligence officials say that since the beginning of the latest intifadeh, no Palestinian bomb plots have been uncovered in America. But they recognize that the ease of manufacturing a bomb makes suicide attacks a serious threat. "It's something to be concerned about," says a U.S. intelligence official. So far, there's little sign that it's in the interest of Palestinian bombers to attack Americans. While many Palestinians believe that U.S. support for Israel makes America complicit in what they see as the Jewish state's excesses, Palestinian militant leaders apparently believe that targeting Americans would hurt...
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