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...civilian officials have hardly done much to improve lives when they have had the chance. It was governmental neglect that enabled militants to establish a foothold in the tribal areas in the first place. Unless the government can follow the army's offensive with development, infrastructure, jobs and justice, extremist groups will always thrive in the tribal areas. Taking the battle to the militants in South Waziristan, says Lieut. General Ali Muhammad Jan Aurakzai, the former governor of Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province, "is a requirement, but not a solution - a first field dressing to a battle wound...
...American living in Israel described as a Jewish extremist was arrested and charged with a decade-long campaign of murder and violence against Arabs, gays and other groups. Israeli authorities said Yaakov (Jack) Teitel, 37, confessed to fatally shooting two Arabs in 1997 in retaliation for Palestinian suicide bombings. His alleged crimes also include stabbing and wounding an Arab man he believed had made a pass at him and bombing the homes of a left-wing professor and a family that belonged to a messianic Jewish sect; the professor and a 15-year-old boy were wounded...
Ironically, the rise of Sunni extremist groups like al-Qaeda has brought Clinton's interests - microfinance, education and health care - to the center of national-security policy for the first time. The impetus came not from the State Department but from the military, where counterinsurgency doctrine demanded that social services in war zones - schools, justice, economic development - reinforce the military's efforts to secure the population. As a result, there was immediate chemistry between Clinton and General David Petraeus, author of the Army's counterinsurgency manual, who became one of her prime military mentors when she served on the Senate...
...American living in Israel has been arrested and charged with a string of terror attacks over more than a decade against Arab, gay and leftist targets. Israeli police describe Yaakov (Jack) Teitel as a Jewish extremist and say he is responsible for the murder of two Palestinians in 1997 and a pair of bombings that left a professor and a 15-year-old boy wounded, among other crimes. Teitel's Oct. 7 arrest was made public on Nov. 1; police say they found a weapons laboratory at his West Bank home and a weapons cache nearby. His attorney says...
...Reportedly told investigators he dreamed that God had instructed him to carry out his attacks and he would die if he did not obey. Also said he acted alone and not in connection with extremist groups...