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...older men are tired and empty and desperate. It's a look that comes from too much reflection, says Nimr Shaaban, 37, who was jailed 17 years ago for throwing Molotov cocktails in Jerusalem. A while back, Shaaban found himself sharing a cell with a would-be suicide bomber picked up by Israeli police before he could detonate his charges. "I told him that suicide bombs are a big, big mistake," he says. "On the outside, they don't take time to consider moral issues. In prison, you have all the time you want to think...
...PLEADED GUILTY. SAAJID BADAT, 25, British-born student and co-conspirator of shoe bomber Richard Reid; to plotting to blow up a U.S-bound airliner; at the Central Criminal Court, in London. Badat was accused of planning to detonate an explosive device in his shoe on a flight to the U.S.?the same strategy as Reid's, who is serving a life sentence in the U.S. following his own botched attempt in December 2001?but Badat never carried out his mission. Awaiting sentencing on March 18, Badat could face extradition to the U.S. on seven charges, including terrorism and plotting...
...either shooting him in the street or setting off a car bomb. But like a number of other high-profile U.S. terrorism prosecutions since 9/11 that have grabbed big headlines only to quietly fizzle or stall in trial--from alleged terrorist flight student Zacarias Moussaoui and accused dirty bomber Jose Padilla to the Detroit sleeper cell and former enemy combatant Yaser Hamdi--the case against Abu Ali may not play out so dramatically. "He fell in with some bad people but probably never did much himself but talk," says a source in the Middle East who has knowledge...
...doubt inevitable, but that only made it more depressing. A Palestinian suicide bomber shattered the region?s three-month period of calm Friday night by killing four Israelis and injuring 50 outside a crowded Tel Aviv nightclub. The bomber, a 21-year-old student from a village near the West Bank town of Tulkarem, was the first since the November death of Yasser Arafat; he hoped to destroy the tenuous trust that took root at a Feb. 8 peace summit in Egypt. To keep him from succeeding, Palestinian security forces - which in the last four years have done little...
...their deadly operations, according to U.S. military intelligence. Even as more attacks took place last week in the run-up to the election--including mortar rounds on the U.S. embassy that killed two Americans--the Iraqi government announced the capture of several key al-Zarqawi lieutenants, including an alleged "bomber-in-chief." U.S.-led forces arrested other significant insurgent leaders, the result of a monthlong sweep beyond Iraq's big cities. On a recent mission, TIME Baghdad bureau chief MICHAEL WARE saw the strategy at work...