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MIDDLE EAST Mass Curfew Fails to Bring Security to Israel Two islamic jihad suicide bombers blew themselves up in a non-Jewish Tel Aviv neighborhood, killing three bystanders and injuring more than 40 others. Earlier, eight people were killed and 20 wounded when an Israeli bus carrying settlers was ambushed by Palestinian gunmen inside the West Bank. The attacks showed that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's policy of occupying West Bank towns and imposing a curfew on the Palestinian population has not destroyed the militants' ability to strike. The gunmen, dressed in Israeli military uniform, set off a roadside...
...Bank cities interferes with Israel's own efforts to stabilize the current reoccupation, experience has shown that it's unlikely to deter further Palestinian terror attacks. But the Israelis believe that loosening their grip would simply encourage future attacks. No such dilemmas face the militants of Hamas and Islamic Jihad (the two organizations responsible for the latest attacks), and even the Al Aksa Martyr's Brigade linked with Arafat's own Fatah organization. They're out to demonstrate their continued ability to kill Israelis despite the IDF's presence in the West Bank cities and signal their rejection...
...intelligence analysis of it, is a short handwritten letter, bearing bin Laden's signature, to al-Qaeda operations chief Abu Zubaydah. The note, which was among the documents found on Abu Zubaydah when he was seized in a March police raid in Pakistan, exhorts Abu Zubaydah to continue the jihad against the U.S. even if something happens to bin Laden or to his deputy, Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahiri, a reference that suggests al-Zawahiri too was alive at the time. Other material found in the Faisalabad hideaway of Abu Zubaydah, whom U.S. officials are interrogating at an undisclosed location...
...network's organizational starting point has tended to be pre-existing local radical groups. Al-Qaeda itself is a product of the globalization of armed Islamist extremism that began during the anti-Soviet "jihad" in Afghanistan. Militants previously engaged only with local grievances flocked to Afghanistan from all over the Islamic world, and were drawn into an 'Islamist International' that created the basis for al-Qaeda. Bin Laden's approach has been to fuse the efforts of diverse groups engaged in local insurgencies in Egypt, Algeria, Chechnya, Uzbekistan, China, the Philippines and elsewhere into a single global 'jihad,' targeting...
...over the towns to the Palestinian Authority under the Oslo accords. As a Defense Ministry official puts it, "We don't want to handle their sewage." Even if Sharon withstands coalition pressures, a prolonged reoccupation would bring international criticism. That risk was underscored when Israeli forces looking for Islamic Jihad activists in Jenin last week opened fire on Palestinian civilians who mistakenly thought that the Israeli-imposed curfew had been lifted. Four Palestinians, including three children, were killed...