Word: haltingly
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...mayor. "Little do they know. Our international links are strong." - By Simon Robinson and Peter Hawthorne A Fragile Peace LIBERIA A peace deal signed by government and rebel groups in Liberia lasted just five days as fighting reportedly broke out in Buchanan late last week. The accord, designed to halt almost 15 years of deadly conflict, calls for an interim authority to assume control in October...
...blood continues to flow in the coming weeks, the post-mortem on the cease-fire will become academic. And the discussion will shift to the question of what other ideas the Bush administration has for stopping the carnage that the Israelis and Palestinians, separately and together, appear unable to halt...
...peace process in deadlock and its government in limbo, dissident republicans are trying to fill the vacuum with violence. McKevitt was joined in prison by eight men accused of training at a camp run by the Continuity I.R.A., another dissident group, and Belfast is regularly brought to a halt by bomb scares. "The dissidents are always a threat," says one British security source, "but there is definitely a higher-level threat at the moment." Thanks to good intelligence, police on both sides of the border are regularly intercepting members of the I.R.A. factions as they set out on attacks...
...terror charges), and the leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Abbas and Dahlan pointedly refused to accept security responsibility in Gaza without the consent of the militants - in the form of a hudna, the Islamic term for a temporary cease-fire, in which those organizations have undertaken to halt all attacks on Israelis for three, and in Fatah's case six, months...
...immediate PA offensive to disarm and dismantle the terror infrastructure of the hudna signatories and the PA's insistence that as long as the hudna holds it should be given time to tame the radicals. The PA has also won U.S. sympathy for its demand that Israel halt construction of its West Bank "security fence" designed to separate Israelis and Palestinians. The reason is that the fence is, to all intents and purposes, a border, and rather than following the internationally recognized (1967) border between Israel and the West Bank, the route mapped out for Sharon's fence instead snakes...