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...this summer, which is now viewed by U.S. officials as a critical first step toward peace. "Abbas doesn't have 100 days of grace. He doesn't even have 100 seconds," says Amos Gilad, an influential Defense Ministry policymaker. Top Palestinian officials say the attack at the Gaza checkpoint showed that extremists intend to use violence to bury any chance Abbas has of diplomatic progress - a strategy that yielded immediate results when Sharon suspended ties with Abbas the next day. Abbas is feeling pressure. At a meeting last week of the central committee of Fatah, Abbas' political party, there were...
...link. O'Keefe established a personal friendship with Ona; so much so that he was the only white man invited to the coronation, and was permitted to film it. But on his last attempt to enter the zone, the Queensland web master was stopped at a checkpoint manned by Musingku's men and turned back. O'Keefe says that on a previous visit Richards had signed an activities agreement with Musingku, whom Richards believed had access to millions of dollars in private bank accounts. But when the business deal failed to materialize, he chartered the jet and returned to investigate...
...Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs. In response to the perceived threat, Mekamui officials have placed a road block at Aropa airport on the highway south from Arawa to stop the A.F.P. from traveling to the city of Buin. When Time was stopped at Aropa, the guards manning the checkpoint were searching vehicles. And late last month, the kingdom produced another strange, sad story, perhaps illustrative of Ona's failing hold on his empire, and dwindling authority over his men. Ona suffered a heartbreaking personal loss, when his daughter committed suicide, apparently after becoming pregnant...
...This was the outcome of major neglect by some parts of the multinational [forces]." IYAD ALLAWI, Prime Minister of Iraq, criticizing international coalition forces for the deaths of 49 Iraqi national-guard recruits who were executed at a false checkpoint outside Baghdad last week...
This is especially clear at the Canadian-U.S. border, where a gaudy monstrosity has replaced the modest Cape-Cod house that used to serve as the checkpoint for travelers headed north into Canada. I pass under the stainless steel bridge and glance into the reflection-coated windows, and wonder if the security guards behind the bulletproof glass will pick me out as a threatening figure and detain me for further questioning. Since 9-11, nothing is as straightforward for travelers. Even in rural Vermont, the very architecture of the patrol station is there to tell Americans that constant vigilance...