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...controls on terrorist groups, only about $10 million of identified terrorist assets have been frozen since the beginning of the year, compared with $112 million in the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11. In Washington, the Treasury Department challenged the report's conclusions on the ineffectiveness of the effort to clamp down on terrorists' assets. But the U.N. document also detailed the relative ease with which terrorists can cross international boundaries and replenish their supplies of weapons. Al-Qaeda, said the report, "is by all accounts 'fit and well' and poised to strike again at its leisure...
...solar division of Shell to turn raw silicon wafers into photovoltaic cells. And Kok has returned to work in the optical-media sector, designing in-line machines to mass-produce all types of dvds. His company has invented a type of compression-molding technology called the E-Clamp. Existing DVD-production machines require operators to change molds every time they want to switch production to a different type of CD or DVD--say, from single-sided discs to double-sided ones--at a cost of about $50,000 a change. With the E-Clamp, the same mold can be used...
...cabinet minister Rehavam Zeevi last year, but the PA court ordered his release on the grounds that no evidence had been presented against Saadat, and no legal proceedings conducted. Arafat had arrested Saadat not for legal reasons, but in order to satisfy the Israeli and American demand that he clamp down on Israel's most wanted. Israeli officials immediately warned that they would not tolerate his release, and Arafat's cabinet used an implied Israeli threat to kill the PFLP leader to keep him in prison in defiance of the court order...
...alarm at how soon after "Defensive Shield" Palestinian attacks have resumed. Washington, at least formally, is opposed to Israel seeking a military solution, and the Bush administration's game plan, in concert with moderates, is to restore conditions for dialogue by getting the PA's security structures to clamp down hard on prospective terrorists. But right now ordinary Palestinians are not taking the PA's security structures any more seriously than the Israelis are, and the two effects tend to reinforce each other: The Israelis are in the West Bank because they don't believe the PA can or will...
Although he's often accused of "never missing an opportunity to miss an opportunity," Yasser Arafat's call for Palestinian elections shows an uncharacteristic political agility. Under pressure from all sides to clamp down on terrorism and reform his Palestinian Authority, Arafat used a speech to the Palestinian legislature Wednesday to denounce attacks on Israeli civilians and to call for sweeping, if undefined, reforms. Thursday, the Palestinian legislature scheduled a presidential election for next March, legislative elections within a year from now and voted to name a new PA cabinet within 45 days...