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DIED. MAZEN DANA, 43, award-winning Reuters cameraman and father of four; after being shot by U.S. soldiers who mistook his camera for a weapon; as he was filming outside Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison. Dana spent most of the past decade covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Hebron, where he grew up. It was the second death of a Reuters cameraman since the war began...
...expected, having gone along with the process primarily to stay on-side with Palestinian public opinion. The killing Hamas and Jihad operatives in the past two weeks provided the excuse needed to relaunch the terror war. Or even, if some suggest, the Jerusalem bombing was ordered by a Hebron faction rather than the Hamas leadership in Gaza, the net effect will be the same...
...services, already facing a constant deluge of alerts and attacks. It is also a blow to Arafat's Palestinian Authority, which particularly fears losing influence over the gunmen to Iranian-backed Islamic Jihad. It was that group that claimed responsibility for the attack on Israeli settlers and soldiers in Hebron Friday evening that killed at least a dozen people...
...group said to have links to the al-Qaeda network. The paper said MI5 had been tracking the group for six months. MIDDLE EAST Sabbath Attack Twelve Israelis died as gunmen from the Islamic Jihad ambushed a group of Jews leaving Sabbath prayers in the West Bank town of Hebron. The militants said the attack avenged the killing of a Jihad commander by Israel two weeks ago. Israeli soldiers struck back, killing two gunmen after pursuing them from house to house in a four-hour battle. Parts of Hebron were shelled by Israeli tanks. JORDAN Crackdown Security forces arrested...
...launch any retaliatory strikes against Iraq. Through his aides, Bush also demanded last month that Israeli forces lift their siege of Yasser Arafat's compound and hold back in the West Bank and Gaza. It's working: Israeli officials now say they may withdraw the army from Hebron by the end of this week...