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Even if a peace offensive gets off the ground, the Israeli and Palestinian belligerents may not notice. In just the last month, the ferocity of the conflict has taken on new dimensions. The catalyst for the current round of hostilities was the Feb. 14 bombing of an Israeli Merkava Mark 3 tank in the central Gaza Strip, which killed three Israeli soldiers. An Israeli official told TIME the bomb contained the high-density plastic explosive C-4, large amounts of which the Israelis believe are being smuggled into Gaza through tunnels running under the Egyptian border. "It's frightening...
...that Abdullah was hiding out in Khulshalabad, a hamlet to the west of Mazar with his wife, son and daughter, Anwar paid a visit. He told the people the Americans were intent on hunting down every al Qaeda member. "If you don't give him up the Americans will bomb you," he told them, "They aren't just going to go away." Abdullah surrendered within 24 hours. A Saudi and former Taliban intelligence officer, he was considered quite a catch. When Anwar went to pick him up, the CIA tagged along and interrogated him on the spot. "The Americans gave...
...TATP is one of the most sensitive explosives known," says a U.S. government bomb expert. "Drop something on it or rub something against it, and it can go. He was taking a big chance just stomping on it." There is no commercial market for TATP; it's too hard to handle. Terrorists increasingly favor it because recipes are all over the Internet, the ingredients can be found in any pharmacy, it's hard to detect, and mules like Reid are going to die anyway...
...dangerously? One reason is that Abu Sayyaf is a more squashable threat. Although its Basilan contingent has evaded 6,000 poorly trained Philippine troops for the past year and currently holds two Americans hostage, it's an operation that can be wrapped up in months, rather than years. (A bomb and grenade went off in public areas in the south over the weekend, probably a protest of the U.S. troops' role...
...deadly - chemical attack. One method, Tunisian-born Essid Sami Ben Khemais boasted to his comrade, required an unidentified "efficient" product that could be stored in tomato cans. When released, it would suffocate its victims. At another point in the bugged telephone call, Ben Khemais refers to a "gas bomb," seemingly a much more lethal device, though apparently just as makeshift...