Word: islamists
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Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres took it all in. The bombers, Islamist radicals determined to wreck the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, had just claimed their 56th victim in nine days. They had turned Israeli public opinion so strongly against Peres' dovish policies that he was in serious danger of losing power in May 29 elections. For the first time, terrorists had put the nascent peace, the project on which Peres' place in history depends, in serious jeopardy...
Arafat has responded more forcefully this time than he has to past bombings. Last week his forces arrested hundreds of Islamist activists, including seven of 13 big fish that Israel specifically targeted. Arafat even invited Israeli troops to accompany P.A. forces on some raids. In an interview with two Israeli newspapers, Arafat's senior aide, Mahmoud Abbas, said the P.A. was determined to "demolish the vicious organizations" of terrorists. "Enough is enough," he said...
ISRAELIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN BRACED for the blow. The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas had vowed to take revenge for Israel's assassination two months ago of Yehia Ayyash--or "the Engineer," as he was known--the organization's master bombmaker. Yet when the fury burst forth, its savagery was stunning. First, in two explosions spaced 45 min. apart, Hamas suicide-bombers claimed 26 victims, first on a bus in Jerusalem, then at a hitchhiking post outside coastal Ashkelon. Then, exactly seven days later, the militants struck again, eviscerating another bus in central Jerusalem, this time killing at least...
...fugitive Islamist did, however, take phone calls. And that proved his undoing. Last week Ayyash, 29, was killed in a house in Beit Lahiya, in the Gaza Strip, by an explosion from the earpiece of a telephone he was holding. His demise ended one of the most intensive manhunts ever conducted by Israeli security--a search for the alleged mastermind of the suicide bombings that have threatened the fragile peace between Israelis and Palestinians...
Security officials interpreted the relatively untroubled election as proof that the Islamist rebels were too weak to mount a major attack. The army has hit the G.I.A. and other armed groups hard since last spring, and the guerrillas have reportedly lost control of three outlying regions. In Algiers G.I.A. members still extort protection money in the "triangle of death," as the slums to the east of the city are known, but thousands of Algerians have fled areas of conflict. The young assassins who stalk victims with knives and pistols in the capital's center are fewer in number. "Some were...