Word: doubting
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American intelligence experts have no doubt what will be the prime target: the U.S. "The next attack will be here, on the American continent, and aimed to hit the heart of our system," predicts one high-ranking intelligence official. Some experts fear that a retaliatory strike against terrorists abroad could provoke reprisals inside the U.S. Thousands of Iranians and Lebanese have recently settled in the U.S., and there is no way to distinguish the tiny minority who may be potential terrorists from the great majority who are legitimate refugees...
...widely believed that both Iran and Syria support and condone terrorism. Weinberger, for instance, claims that the U.S. has discovered strong links between Hizballah and the Khomeini regime. "Can anyone seriously doubt that Syria's Assad has the means or the methods to shut down operations like the TWA hijacking?" asked the Wall Street Journal. "We should give him the incentive to do so" -- by bombing Syrian military targets. Nonetheless, the degree of control exercised by Iran and Syria is a matter of dispute in intelligence circles. Some experts feel that both countries have lately sought to restrain...
...with Berri: "He may be in the center but only because the center moved. He's not an extremist, but he's shown that he's quite willing to escalate his language -- and his actions -- to retain his position of authority in the Shia community." Still, there is no doubt that Berri feels deeply about the Shi'ites held by Israel and is as determined as his followers to get them released...
Paulo federal police headquarters. A businesslike Dr. Lowell Levine, a forensic specialist from the U.S. Justice Department, stepped forward and announced the experts' unanimous conclusion: "The skeleton is that of Josef Mengele within a reasonable scientific certainty." Later, the Americans reported that they had "absolutely no doubt" of their findings...
...West Germany, officials refused to comment on the Brazilian findings until German forensic experts had returned from Sao Paulo. But the week did bring to light a stream of photographs and documents that seemed to leave little doubt that the 25-year hunt for Mengele was over. The weekly magazine Bunte Illustrierte fleshed out details of the Nazi fugitive's sojourn of roughly 18 years in Brazil with an annotated collection of photographs, supplied by Mengele's 41-year-old son Rolf. In response, the rival weekly Stern ran six pages of photographs chronicling the same period of lonely exile...