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...night of Jan. 3, catching most of the 13 crew members asleep. The Israelis say the crew told them the weapons were loaded onto the Karine A from boats off the Iranian coast in an operation headed by Lebanese Hajj Bassem, an assistant to the notorious terrorist Imad Mughniyah. A leader of the Lebanese militia Hizballah, Mughniyah has close ties to Iran and is blamed by the Americans for the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut. Israeli intelligence tells Time the captured captain of the ship, Omar Akawi, a maritime adviser to the Palestinian Transportation Ministry, identified...
Indeed, the evidence suggests that Sharon’s visit was merely a pretext for an uprising that had been planned long in advance. Imad al-Faluji, the Palestinian Authority (PA) minister for communications, put it plainly during a speech in Gaza in December 2000 (reported by the Arabic-language newspaper Al-Ayyam): “The PA had begun to prepare for the outbreak of the current intifada since the return from the Camp David negotiations, by request of President Yasser Arafat…and not as a specific protest against Sharon’s visit...
...eight are now in custody while Spanish investigators try to flesh out what is still a largely circumstantial case for that connection. The probe centers on the cell?s alleged leader, Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas, a Syrian-born family man known to his comrades as Abu Dahdah. He lived with his Spanish wife, a Muslim convert, and their four children in a leafy middle-class neighborhood on the southern fringe of Madrid...
...Though some of the steps taken so far may seem tiny, they are in fact giant leaps forward for Iran's reform movement. For example, in early October around the time when the FBI put Hizballah operative Imad Mugniyah on its most-wanted list, Tehran told him in no uncertain terms to leave the country, a move that would have been unthinkable 15 years ago when Iran was a supporter of Hizballah terrorist activity in Lebanon directed against Israeli and Western interests...
Mozna and Mohammed Imad buried Wael with a bloody gouge between his eyes where the bullet had entered. He still clung to the stone he had been about to throw. The surgeon at Shifa had been unable to free the rock from the rigor mortis in the boy's hand...