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Sporting their sunglasses and trim figures, smartly enduring and inventing indignities, these characters are a new breed of Palestinian: cool. (When a fire bomb is lobbed into his driveway, a man blithely turns on a fire extinguisher, as if terrorists were familiar household pests.) They also have an underdog appeal. That's one perk of being on the weaker side: you get to make jokes about the mighty. Short of a suicide bomb, what power have they...
...proof of the rebels' growing strength was found in the wreckage of the fire fight. Other violence last week showed a weakening of President Hamid Karzai's central government. A bomb attack on a bus in southern Afghanistan killed at least 18 civilians. Afghan authorities blame members of the former Taliban and al-Qaeda for the blast, and possibly a ruthless veteran of Afghanistan's war with the Soviet Union, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who seems to be consolidating power among the insurgents. In Kabul, police arrested three al-Qaeda suspects who allegedly planned to blow up the heavily fortified U.S. embassy...
...error occurred while processing this directive]ARRESTED. CHRISTOS TSIGARIDAS, 64, suspected leader of the Greek extreme left-wing group Popular Revolutionary Struggle; in Athens. Described by officials as "the mother of Greek terrorist groups," the urban guerrilla organization has been held responsible for more than 100 bomb attacks in Greece in the past 30 years. Tsigaridas is the fourth member of the group to be arrested since a police crackdown began earlier this month...
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Investigators probing October's Bali bomb blasts have reached new and startling conclusions about the two explosions in Kuta that claimed 193 lives. Previously they thought one or both of the blasts were set off by a remote-controlled device, most likely a mobile phone. But TIME has learned that investigators now believe both explosions were probably set off by suicide bombers. Sources familiar with the investigation say the main bomb?up to 100 kilos of explosives packed into a Mitsubishi minivan?was most likely detonated by a suicide bomber who was inside the vehicle...