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...passengers there, and detonated a bomb that turned it instantly into a flaming hulk, killing 16 aboard. Israel retaliated by sending tanks back into the West Bank city of Jenin and the offices of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Hours later they left, after blowing up three buildings in the compound. And while it may be premature to interpret the Megiddo attack as the opening volley of an Armageddon, the carnage there, and the response it triggered, serves as a sharp reminder that the violent impasse that forced the Bush administration reluctantly off the sidelines in April...
...broader strategy. Saadat, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, has been in a Palestinian prison in Jericho since April. He was imprisoned under U.S. and British supervision as part of the U.S.-brokered agreement to end Israel's siege of Arafat's Ramallah compound. Israel accuses Saadat of masterminding the assassination of right-wing Israeli 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...
There is much to protect. According to lawyers for 38 plaintiffs in Rhode Island, the Roman Catholic diocese of Providence operates more than 220 corporate subsidiaries, including the Aldrich Mansion, a sprawling compound on Narragansett Bay where the Brad Pitt movie Meet Joe Black was filmed. Shooting took six weeks on a property that charges $3,000 to hold a baby shower there. The Providence diocese owns $44 million in real estate, and income from its property finances a wide range of social services. Diocese officials argue that it cannot afford to compensate victims of sex abuse...
...month ago, members of the U.S.'s First Battalion of the 3rd Special Forces Group were delivered by bus to a bomb-scarred compound outside Kabul. Once Afghanistan's national military academy, the complex was in ruins, strewn with the refuse of war and neglect. Rebuilding the barracks and office blocks would have been challenging enough, but the Americans have taken on a far more arduous task. From the rubble, they are trying to train the nucleus of a new Afghan National Army (ANA)?multiethnic, apolitical, ready and able to protect the nation and its nascent government. And despite...
...many times in the past, intelligence reports of terrorist plans--even against specific targets--have failed to prevent horrific strikes. In 1983, we had a number of reports that terrorists were targeting the U.S. Marine compound in Beirut. On Oct. 23, 1983, 241 U.S. soldiers were killed...