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...fact that JI is choosing easier strikes shows it's hurting from the crackdown by regional security agencies. But it would be foolish to underestimate JI's capabilities or goals. Although senior organizers and foot soldiers have been arrested, very few "colonels" have been captured. JI is becoming more dependent on al-Qaeda operatives from the Middle East (Saudi al-Qaeda lieutenant Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri was en route to Malaysia when he was recently nabbed in Yemen, and Yemeni national Syafullah, a senior al-Qaeda officer, is wanted for participating in the Bali bombings), which could lead...
...smuggling rings operating inside Sangatte. "This is all about preventing the emergence of another Sangatte, where organized smuggling groups can set up shop again," says a spokesman for the French Interior Ministry. "We aren't going to accept the existence of any more zones outside the law." The French crackdown has pushed many migrants over the border into Belgium, where coastal police picked up 60 illegal aliens last week, all of them from Sangatte. "We don't have any overall numbers yet, but there are more and more refugees every day," says Karen Vinck, a Zeebrugge police official working...
...Bank town of Hebron. The militants said the attack avenged the killing of a Jihad commander by Israel two weeks ago. Israeli soldiers struck back, killing two gunmen after pursuing them from house to house in a four-hour battle. Parts of Hebron were shelled by Israeli tanks. JORDAN Crackdown Security forces arrested two of their most wanted Islamic radicals, Khamis Abu Darwish and his brother, Asri, in the southern city of Maan. The arrests came during a virtual siege of the city, in which four people were killed and 50 arrested, including eight foreigners. Soldiers found a large quantity...
...Yemeni President Abdullah Ali Saleh has unambiguously chosen Washington's side in its war with al-Qaeda, arresting scores of al-Qaeda suspects - even, reportedly, bin Laden's youngest wife, 20-year-old Amal al-Saddah. But despite the crackdown, al-Qaeda elements have found support among tribal chieftains in more remote parts of Yemen, where they have taken shelter, and the government's ability to act against them has been limited. Indeed, it is the very weakness of the Yemeni state that makes it such an attractive base for bin Laden...