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...released from his month-long confinement in Ramallah and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon set to visit Washington for talks this week with President Bush, the Middle East crisis is on the verge of a new round of diplomatic struggle. Israeli officials tell TIME that Sharon, hoping to pre-empt U.S. and Saudi initiatives, will make a new concession on Palestinian statehood, conditioned on "serious, concrete and continued steps against terrorism" by Arafat. Israeli officials say the concession will involve a new map for a potential Palestinian state. U.S. officials say they won't know the details until they meet...
...leased from his month-long confinement in Ramallah and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon set to visit Washington for talks this week with President Bush, the Middle East crisis is on the verge of a new round of diplomatic struggle. Israeli officials tell Time that Sharon, hoping to pre-empt U.S. and Saudi initiatives, will make a new concession on Palestinian statehood, conditioned on "serious, concrete and continued steps against terrorism" by Arafat. Israeli officials say the concession will involve a new map for a potential Palestinian state. U.S. officials say they won't know the details until they meet...
...arrest of the three men in November raises lots of questions. Was it to pre-empt a planned terror wave in the Philippines? How far beyond the three arrested does the cell extend? What exactly was Selamah's role in the cell? Philippine officials won't specifically say. But some analysts believe Selamah acted as an al-Qaeda recruiter and facilitated the movement of operatives in and out of the Philippines via the country's maritime "back-door" border with Malaysia and Indonesia...
...acquire Conoco for $15 billion in stock, followed swiftly by carpetmaker Mohawk Industries' $1.4 billion deal to buy flooring company Dal-Tile and the announcement of a $3 billion cruise-line merger of Royal Caribbean with Princess. There was even talk that cruise-line heavy Carnival might pre-empt that deal by bidding for Princess...
...Laden and al-Qaeda may have learned, by violent experience, to pre-empt and harness the new fanaticism. In late 1995, bin Laden's compound in Khartoum was attacked by gunmen believed to be Takfiri. A Sudanese friend of bin Laden's who questioned the surviving attacker said, "He was like a maniac, more or less like the students in the U.S.A. who shoot other students. They don't have very clear objectives." By the time al-Qaeda had resettled in Afghanistan, ideological training was an integral part of the curriculum, according to a former recruit who went...