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...water, you should remember the origin of the stream. The present generation has to remember those who made sacrifices on their behalf." - By Phil Zabriskie New War, Old Tactics GERMANY As the trial of Tunisian Ihsan Garnaoui opened in Berlin, prosecutors revived tactics used against the Red Army Faction in the 1970s. Garnaoui, believed to have been planning a Madrid-style bombing campaign...
...such attacks would anger supporters in the gulf who bankroll Hamas clinics and youth clubs but don't want to be seen as backing attacks on the U.S. Hamas sources tell TIME that some local leaders are threatening to join with malcontents from Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction to form splinter terrorist cells that could go after U.S. targets. As the top power in Hamas, Meshaal will have to decide how to deal with the hotheads. --By Matt Rees and Jamil Hamad
...likeminded elements in Fatah, and it is that alliance that looks most likely to fill the political vacuum in Gaza once the Israelis withdraw. It is the prospect of the green and white banners of Hamas being hoisted over the vacated settlements of Gaza that has the hawkish faction of Sharon's own Likud party warning that withdrawal will be claimed by Palestinians as a victory for terrorism, and that like Israel's unilateral pullout from Lebanon in 2000, the result will be to encourage further violence...
Until recently, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were considered among the most disciplined guerrillas on earth: an often suicidal force locked in a 20-year struggle to secure autonomy for Sri Lanka's Tamil minority. Today, the Tigers are fighting each other as rival factions clash north of the eastern city of Batticaloa. The violence follows the March split by the Tigers' eastern commander, Colonel Karuna Amman, who broke ranks from the northern leadership?a dangerous move in a group that demands total loyalty to its supreme commander, Vellupillai Prabhakaran. On April 9, Prabhakaran issued a death warrant...
...Taiwanese dialect, emphasize Taiwan's history in schools and promote Taiwanese culture. For many, bentuhua also means independence, or at least permanent separation from China. The KMT, which still draws heavily on support from mainlanders, can't please everybody. Says KMT adviser Wu Tung-yeh: "The old-line faction and the bentuhua faction are sleeping in the same bed but dreaming different dreams...