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...from Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority moved in to surround the Gaza City home of Sheik Ahmed Yassin, founder and spiritual leader of the movement whose name means zeal, calls rang from the loudspeakers of local mosques, "Go and rescue Sheik Yassin!" The security men were greeted with a hail of stones and occasional gunfire from several thousand defiant Hamas loyalists determined to show Arafat, just like Israel, how much they have become a force to be reckoned with...
...Spanish investigators consider it "curious," one of them told Time, that six of the eight men under indictment hail from Aleppo, the ancient Syrian city about which Atta wrote his urban planning dissertation and which he visited at least once...
Advancing under a hail of fire on Monday afternoon, Alliance troops scaled the walls and ran to within a few yards of the building. From there, they fired a barrage of grenades in through the windows. After a few hours of fierce fighting, Alliance soldiers soaked the outside walls of the school with gasoline and ignited it. "The fires burned all night," says a local resident. "I could see them from my house. We all shouted at the Pakistanis to surrender." Adds Zaki: "We were able to kill or injure most of them. I don't know why they kept...
...Imagine the difficulties. U.S. special forces happen upon a cave entrance having been pointed there by a local Afghan warlord thinking about all the Toyota pickups he could buy with the $25 million reward. There's a fierce shootout and the terrorist-in-chief goes down in a hail of bullets. Or the Air Force is summoned to finish the job with a bunker-buster bomb. The moment of vengeance has arrived, even possibly "closure" for the loved ones of his victims. But two weeks later, there "he" is again on Al Jezeera, wearing the flak jacket and linens...
...more reason, then, to marvel at what the Avalanches have accomplished. Not only are they the best new band in recent memory, having crafted a stunningly original album that is equal parts sublime dance and luscious pop, but they hail from Australia, a continent well known for bands like INXS and Silverchair but a total no-show when it comes to mind-blowing dance music. Last week’s domestic release of Since I Left You, one of the year’s finest records for sure, was practically invisible, considering the boatloads of critical hype and acclaim this...