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...Army of Islam, Johnston said, was "a small jihadi group that wasn't so interested in the Israeli-Palestinian issue as much as getting a knife into Britain." The group, numbering several hundred, claim to be inspired by al-Qaeda's anti-Western agenda, but Hamas leaders refer to them as kidnappers and guns-for-hire patronized by Fatah security forces loyal to Palestinian President Abbas. It was only after Hamas defeated Fatah militia in Gaza last month, said Johnston, that his abductors became edgy and nervous...
...repeated efforts to break off contact and had grabbed the individual’s bag and wrist. Officers arrested Xuefeng Sue, age 34, of Boston and issued a trespass warning for all Harvard property.7:55 p.m.: Officers reported to Quincy House A in response to an individual wielding a knife and issuing threats. The man, Ronald Vick of Brighton. was placed under arrest when caught in Peabody Terrace, and was charged with four counts of assault with a dangerous weapon and breaking and entering with intent to commit a felony. He was issued a trespass warning for all Harvard property.May...
...stop so that he could relieve himself, all four attacked him with knives, stole about $50, a pager and some keys, and buried the body in a nearby field. With no witnesses to the crime, the prosecution's case relied on the confessions and two pieces of evidence: a knife found in one defendant's home that had blood of the same type as the driver and a cigarette butt found in the taxi with another's DNA. But the knife and the cigarette butt were never produced in court, says Xu. And as for the confessions, "We have witnesses...
...visited Jalazon recently, they were commemorating the nakba and the naksa rolled into one. Indeed, when I press Omar to talk about the war he was born into, his thoughts leap to 1948, as though one event were indistinguishable from the other. He lays down his butcher's knife and shows me a 2007 wall calendar with a photograph of an old stone schoolhouse in Beit Nabala, his ancestral village. "The water in Beit Nabala was sweet, and the earth was so rich that beans grew overnight like magic," he marvels. Has Omar ever visited his old village home...
...camps in Lebanon" if the army's indiscriminate shelling of the camp at Nahr al-Bared did not cease. Such a confrontation risks pulling in Hizballah, which, although a Shi'ite group, is closely allied with Sunni Palestinian factions such as Hamas. With Lebanon balanced on a knife-edge, many fear that unrest could cause the country to stumble back into the civil war that ravaged it between 1975-90, itself ignited amid friction involving armed Palestinian groups...