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...around 2 a.m. on July 1, an allied ground force of 300 to 400 troops, together with air support, was engaged in a series of operations throughout the Deh Rawod region. A B-52 bomber pounded a cave and tunnel complex; special forces on the ground discovered a weapons cache with thousands of rounds of armor-piercing ammunition. Allied sources in Afghanistan say that ground forces saw a mortar being covered with a tarpaulin in Kakarak and that later they were fired upon as they approached the village. At that point the soldiers called in support from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Losing The Peace? | 7/15/2002 | See Source »

FRANCE On June 12 antiterrorist police arrested five men from Pakistan and North Africa they believe may have had contact with or provided logistical support for alleged "shoe bomber" Richard Reid in his attempt to blow up a Paris-to-Miami flight last December...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Wins Than Losses | 6/24/2002 | See Source »

...problem for Bush, and for Sharon, is that the security situation is once again rapidly deteriorating, and there doesn't seem to be much Israel can do about it. The Israeli government knew Tuesday's bomber was coming, having put their public and their security services on high alert for an attack in Jerusalem. An Israeli police surveillance helicopter was hovering above the bus that exploded Tuesday. Yet none of that was enough to save the lives of 19 innocent Israelis, and Palestinian attacks are as commonplace now as they were before the Israeli offensive that essentially ended PA-control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel Bombings: Can Bush Respond? | 6/20/2002 | See Source »

...wall is born of ugly necessity. It's one link in a broad plan that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon approved last week to try to fence out terrorism. The government plans to build a fence along that part of the Green Line where most of the deadly suicide bombers have crossed into Israel during the 20-month-long Palestinian uprising. It's an expensive measure--costing $1.6 million for each of 75 miles of fencing--and it's politically charged, as it requires demarcating a line between the Israelis and the Palestinians that no Israeli government has yet been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fencing Off Terrorists | 6/17/2002 | See Source »

...Yitzchak, who heads the Border Police unit responsible for patrolling the seam line between Israel and the West Bank. A fence constructed around the entire Gaza Strip in 1994 has proved valuable. According to Avi Dichter, head of the Shin Bet, Israel's domestic-security agency, not one suicide bomber has entered Israel from the Gaza Strip since the current uprising began. The new barrier, at least initially, won't completely fence off the West Bank. But it will make it much harder for Palestinians to cross between the militant hotbeds in the north of the West Bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fencing Off Terrorists | 6/17/2002 | See Source »

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