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...stops at a green iron gate at the mouth of an anonymous compound. Once bona fides are established, a man called Mullah Palawan steps outside a small door and beckons his guests inside. "You are welcome," he says, casting cautious eyes up and down. In a long, high-ceilinged room where half a dozen men rest on cushions, he is joined by another man, who agrees to be identified only by his titles, Hajji Mullah Sahib, meaning, roughly, Honorable Mr. Cleric...
Arafat's unreliability is one reason that Sharon, though prepared to discuss a cease-fire, intends to remain on the offensive pending an agreement. Last week the Israeli army gave a clear display of what Sharon on the offensive looks like. It sent a missile into Arafat's Ramallah compound, for the second time this year, coming within 70 feet of where the Palestinian leader was sitting with Miguel Moratinos, the European Union's Middle East envoy. Army officers say they are not trying to kill Arafat--just to scare him into curbing the uprising. For good measure, the Israelis...
...locals. On Feb. 4, a Predator drone fired a Hellfire missile at a man who U.S. Central Command thought might be bin Laden. Villagers say the dead man was a scrap collector; the Pentagon says he was al-Qaeda. And on Jan. 24, special forces raided a compound in Uruzgan province, killing 16. Locals say the victims were not Taliban or al-Qaeda but supporters of Karzai...
...extraordinary hurdle" that would stand in the way of eventual extradition. The Mexican government might actually wish to rid itself of Benjamin Arellano-Felix, who has commanded a sizable private army of heavily armed loyalists. At present, says Hutchinson, he is being held in a Mexican military compound rather than a civilian prison because of security concerns...
...side in a ditch, not far from the mud-brick structure to the east where the trap had been laid. Calling in close air support, the coalition troops had pummeled the building and pushed the enemy back. But the al Qaeda fighters regrouped at a high walled compound further down the road and off to the west. Again they unleashed heavy weapons fire; once more they were repelled. "When we'd finished all the Arabs were dead," says another mujahid who had been in the convoy that morning. But even this miserable ground had come at a price; a handful...