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...Mahmud Abouhalima. Prosecutors say Abouhalima, a former New York City taxi driver, was the ) motorist who paid for the fuel on that February morning in Jersey City. But his significance doesn't end there. The U.S. contends that he is the epitome of the modern terrorist, a self-made commando pursuing a homemade agenda to disrupt Western civilization...
...Operation Ba Bo, a program of "extermination" of South Vietnamese officials. In this context, Pentagon and congressional experts say, Quang may have engaged in the military briefer's time-honored tendency toward overstatement and, like other North Vietnamese officials, may have included non-American members of various CIA-run commando teams in his accounting of captured "Americans...
Karadzic, the Balkan commando-psychiatrist, explains, "This war is a continuation of World War II -- the same families, the same revenge." Everyone agrees about that. After the war, Tito and communism merely suppressed the blood hatreds. Tribal memory and the fierce dynamic of revenge went into a kind of holding pattern for nearly 50 years. With the collapse of communism, all the terrible deeds committed during World War II (and World War I, for that matter) came streaming back, demanding vengeance. The Croats' alliance with Hitler, and the savage enthusiasm of the Croatian ultra- nationalist organization Ustashi in slaughtering Serbs...
Setting out from a hiding place in the woods near the Palestinian town of Jenin, they drive through the West Bank hills in a banged-up taxi and are greeted with friendly waves by Palestinians who clearly do not suspect that the men are Israeli infiltrators. Soon the commandos reach their destination, a small house outside Jenin. Inside, they hope to find Munir Jaradat, 18, allegedly a member of an armed Palestinian group that calls itself the Red Eagles. Weapons drawn, the soldiers storm the house, but they find only two frightened women, a boy and a younger child...
...increasing number of Palestinians who have switched from stones to guns in their fight against the occupation. The army's campaign, which mainly employs undercover units -- "Arabized" is the term used by the media -- has produced a rash of Palestinian deaths under controversial circumstances. Palestinian leaders charge that the commando units are death squads. "We've seen this before, in Guatemala, Argentina, the Philippines," says Riad Malki, an activist associated with the outlawed Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. "The idea is not to capture fugitives but to eliminate them...