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...spectacle was grimly familiar: The acrid stench of smoke, the crunching of shattered glass underfoot, pools of black oil from destroyed vehicles, smeared gouts of congealing blood, wide-eyed and angry soldiers and police thrusting back crowds of journalists and onlookers. The car suspected of carrying the bomb was a twisted sculpture of fire-blackened steel. A second car, containing the bodies of two of the victims, appeared to have taken the brunt of the explosion as it tried to pass the embassy vehicle. A third body, limbs blasted to bloody stumps, lay facedown on the road. To the east...
Tuesday's car bomb attack on U.S. embassy vehicle in northern Beirut was relatively ineffective by today's gruesome standards of political violence: The blast killed four people and wounded 20, but none of the American diplomats who were its presumed targets was harmed. Even so, as the first attack targeting U.S. officials in Lebanon since the end of the civil war in 1990, the bombing will send a nervous shudder through the small but growing American community in Beirut...
...East road show requires the logistics and hardware fit for a small invasion. When Bush touched down in Israel on Wednesday, he was preceded by three C-5 Galaxy aircraft - the U.S. Air Force's heavy lifter - crammed with dozens of armored cars, computers, jamming devices, weapons, packs of bomb-sniffing dogs, Secret Service agents, and a contingent of snipers, some of whom who were later spotted on a rooftop in Bethlehem hiding behind a fake Santa...
...Chinook helicopters to cover the short distance from Jerusalem to the Palestinian headquarters of President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah. But fog rolled into the Judean hills on Thursday, grounding the Chinooks. Instead, Bush set off by road in his serpentine 45-car motorcade riding in one of many identical bomb-proof limousines. The convoy sped by refugee camps and bounced over potholed roads to Abbas's compound. Meanwhile, a senior Israeli police official told TIME that Israel Special Forces and an emergency medical team were at the ready on the outskirts of Ramallah in case of an assassination attempt - they...
Working with Abbas's own security force, the American advance team cased out houses around the Muqataa compound where the two leaders would meet. Palestinian police arrested more than 300 militants belonging to Hamas and Islamic Jihad. One Israeli police official said that the American delegation, fearing that a bomb might be hidden in the table or chairs where Bush and Abbas were talking, decided to bring their own furniture from Washington. On the day itself, Palestinian soldiers lined the roads and closed off traffic...