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...mine-clearing vehicles now guard every street corner in the capital. Gatherings of more than five people?even, Rana assumes, his famous parties?have been outlawed, and the city grinds to a halt every few days as armed police cordon off downtown blocks and break up protests against the crackdown. On the outskirts, the army raids house after house, making hundreds of arrests every...
...else, necessitates U.S. involvement in mediating between Israel and the Palestinians. But the chosen recipe, premised on Palestinian 'regime-change,' has failed. Still, rather than turn up the heat on Israel, as Qureia is demanding, the U.S. has begun pressing the new prime minister-designate to carry out the crackdown on militant groups avoided by his predecessor...
...agreed to order Palestinian security forces (of which he controls the most important units) to crack down on Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Regardless of the outcome of their discussions, Thursday's assassination of a Hamas leader who had played a key role in negotiating the "hudna" made a Palestinian crackdown on Hamas and Islamic Jihad a non-starter. Abbas's security chief, Mohammed Dahlan, said his proposed set of actions against Hamas would have to be reassessed - PA security forces can't be seen, on the Palestinian street, to be doing Israel's dirty work...
...relevance will be called into question. The Palestinian prime minister's position may quickly become untenable if the Palestinian street blames Israel for the escalation. A senior Hamas official on Thursday called on Abbas to resign and leave the Palestinian territories, signaling the movement's readiness to confront any crackdown on the streets of Gaza...
...volunteer fighters had crossed into Iraq from Jordan and Syria before the war. It was reported last week that large numbers of Saudi Islamists may have recently crossed the border to join the battle in Iraq - a number that may actually grow as the Saudi authorities press their crackdown against domestic al-Qaeda sympathizers. (Many of the radicals who made their way to Afghanistan 30 years ago, such as Ayman al-Zawahiri and the other Egyptians in Bin Laden's inner circle, were also escaping a crackdown at home...