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Summer Of Fear SPAIN Officials worry that a series of three bombings, which injured 14 people, mark the launch of a summer campaign by the Basque terrorist group ETA. The first two explosions happened at tourist hotels in the Costa Blanca resorts of Alicante and Benidorm. After a phoned warning to a Basque newspaper by a man claiming to speak on behalf of ETA, police evacuated more than 100 staff and guests from the hotels. Four policemen were wounded in the Benidorm attack, while the nine injured in Alicante were mainly foreign students and their teachers at an adjacent language...
...into the Palestinian Authority, and commit them to the political agreements he negotiates with Israel. Israelis are not impressed, insisting that any further progress on the "roadmap" requires a Palestinian "war on terror," and that Israel won't make further concessions unless they see action. But Abbas refuses to launch a Palestinian civil war, and insists his way is actually working, bringing the calm that almost three years of Israeli military action failed to achieve. The Israelis say the "hudna" simply gives them breathing space to reorganize and rearm, and that without a crackdown the resumption of terror is inevitable...
...Israeli efforts to sideline Arafat have actually made his political life easier viz-a-viz the Prime Minister Washington would love to see eclipse the aging Palestinian leader. That's because despite the fanfare that accompanied the launch of the "roadmap" six weeks ago, there has been very little easing of the siege conditions under which ordinary Palestinians are living in the West Bank. And while Abbas is seen negotiating with the Israelis and offering concessions, ordinary West Bank Palestinians know that Arafat remains confined by the Israelis, sharing their fate. That may be why Abbas continues to implore Sharon...
...pushed Pakistan for months to launch this operation. Military intelligence suggested that a dozen terrorists--possibly including bin Laden--might be holed up in the feisty Mohmand tribe's mountain stronghold, which straddles the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. The plan was to have the Pakistanis sweep into the tribal area while U.S. troops sealed off the Afghan side, trapping the terrorists. Things went awry when Mohmand tribesmen and Afghan fighters supporting the U.S. forces attacked the Pakistani soldiers. The Pakistanis, unsurprisingly, shot back. All together a dozen were killed or injured, and the U.S. was left to referee...
...Days U.N. inspectors spent in their unsuccessful search for weapons of mass destruction (WMD) before they were forced to leave Iraq so the U.S. could launch...