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...electronic jamming devices, hovered about 100 miles outside Tunisian airspace, close enough to jam communications in the area. The Boeing 707 also served as a relay station between Israeli personnel off the Tunisian coast, the hit squad and I.D.F. headquarters in Tel Aviv. Throughout the operation, the commanding general, Ehud Barak, 47, the army's Deputy Chief of Staff, stayed aboard the vessel in the Mediterranean. Barak had participated in a similar operation in April 1973, when Israeli commandos raided Palestinian headquarters in Beirut, killing three P.L.O. leaders...
...Ehud Barak also said more than 200 Israelis had been injured, most of them lightly, since Arab riots began December 8 in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. He said 53 Palestinians had been killed, but the United Nations puts the number...
...responsibility for the attack, saying it was an effort "to revive the armed struggle" against the Jewish state. Israeli officials said they have known for several years that the group's leader, Ahmed Jibril, was training hang-glider terrorist squads in Syria. Israeli Deputy Chief of Staff Major General Ehud Barak vowed that Jibril's organization "will in due time pay the price" for its murderous mission...
...curious world was given a peek at some of the evidence that his enemies claim to have against Abbas. On Wednesday evening, Ehud Barak, chief of Israel's military intelligence department, appeared on television. He played a tape recording in Arabic of the radio conversations that served to back the American and Israeli claim that Abbas was involved in the hijacking. There was nothing beyond the Israeli assertion to show that the tape was genuine. A man identified as Abbas, but referring to himself by the nom de guerre Abu Khaled, could be heard talking of "our objective...
Though Sharon remains a controversial figure in his country, many Israelis were sympathetic to his case. Knesset Member Ehud Olmert, who was a witness for Sharon at the trial, praised the case as "a mark of honor both to Sharon and the state of Israel." But many of those who hoped Sharon would win his suit still held him accountable for the troubles that followed the country's war in Lebanon. Al Hamishmar, a Hebrew-language daily, hailed the jury's initial finding of defamation, but went on to say that "the court . . . was not asked to, and could...