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...Ramallah office. But despite the dramatic visuals, the strikes were a carefully calibrated symbolic use of Israel's awesome military power rather than a frontal assault on the PA. The Israelis were metaphorically shooting at Arafat's feet to get him dancing. The message: Launch a wholesale crackdown on Hamas and Islamic Jihad, or else. And that's a demand strongly supported by the Bush administration, whose statements since the weekend's terror attacks have conspicuously excluded the traditional caveat calling for Israeli restraint...
...months ago Western countries were pummeling Putin for his crackdown on NTV, the independent TV station whose blatant criticism of the war in Chechnya infuriated the Kremlin. Now, silence...
...criminal charges proceed against the protesters—who face up to 10 years in prison—some warn activists elsewhere to beware what they see as crackdown on peace protests...
...missions that al-Zawahiri launched into Egypt, including separate attempts to assassinate the Prime Minister and a former Interior Minister, ended in failure. The successful bombing of the Egyptian embassy in Pakistan was the demented high point of the campaign. Mubarak's security forces responded with a ferocious crackdown in which hundreds of militants were arrested or driven into hiding or exile...
...good measure, the terror attacks have strengthened Mahathir's own crackdown on militant Islamic groups at home. At the beginning of August, police arrested 10 members of the Malaysian Mujahideen Group, which they say is headed by the son of the PAS spiritual leader, alleging they were responsible for a range of crimes, including bank robberies, assassinations and bombings of churches and Hindu temples. At the time, some opposition leaders accused Mahathir of manufacturing the terrorism bogey to undermine his political enemies. The more recent arrests of six other alleged militants have raised not a murmur of protest. "People feel...