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...events. Tensions over the hometown trial increased some more after a bomb scare Monday at the World Trade Center, which forced the evacuation of several hundred people. It turned out that the package had exposed wires but was not a bomb. Prosecutors hope to prove Yousef and suspected cohort Eyad Ismoil were responsible for driving the bomb-laden van into the trade center's underground garage on the day of the attack, which authorities say was intended to shock the U.S. into ending its support for Israel. "We know he directed it all," Vincent Cannistraro, a former CIA chief...
Another suspect in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing was captured, this time in Jordan, and returned to the U.S. for trial. Eyad Ismoil was charged with driving the van that carried the bomb into the complex. He pleaded not guilty...
More than that, the people of the Gaza Strip were filled with a dread that worse was still to come, that the countdown for a cataclysmic collision among Palestinians had begun. "The signs are alarming," said Eyad Sarraj, a human- rights activist in Gaza. "We have all the ingredients for a civil war." Certainly the bloodshed marked a new low for Arafat's already troubled administration. Self-rule has brought the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip little but disappointment, and their frustration is increasingly aimed at Arafat. Having turned his guns on compatriots, the Palestinian leader now faces a huge...
Since the experiment in self-rule began last May, many Palestinians have been telling outsiders that the notion of internecine war was just a fantasy of Israeli right-wingers. Now the possibility of civil war is hard to dismiss. Eyad Sarraj lists the key ingredients he believes are already present: "A weak authority, a strong opposition, undisciplined people on both sides, plenty of arms, plenty of outside influence and an environment of disillusion and despair...
...agreement, it has generated antipathy among Palestinians in the territories, who think its terms tilt heavily in Israel's favor. "We got almost everything we wanted," says Uri Dromi, head of Israel's government press office. "Why should I apologize for our success?" That is just what troubles Dr. Eyad Sarraj, who runs a mental- health clinic in Gaza. "Under this agreement, we will have an occupation in everything but name," he says. "Instead of being next door to me, the Israeli army will be a few meters farther away. Gaza will continue to be a prison, with Israel controlling...