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...weight would be given to any evidence that paramilitaries are engaged in training and targeting and the acquisition or development of weapons. The announcement came during a week of continuing sectarian violence in which a Roman Catholic man, Gerald Lawlor, 19, was killed by the Ulster Freedom Fighters, a Loyalist terror group. FRANCE Spy Chief Sacked President Jacques Chirac fired the head of France's foreign intelligence service, the DGSE. The spy agency is accused of launching a probe that resulted in two reports, in 1999 and 2000, into the nature of Chirac's links with disgraced Japanese banker Shoichi...
...recent incursions into the West Bank. Israeli helicopter gunships opened fire with machine guns on the nearby West Bank town of Jenin and tanks rolled into surrounding neighborhoods. Tanks also destroyed much of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's headquarters. NORTHERN IRELAND A Sinn Fein Mayor Elected in Belfast Against Loyalist protests, votes from nonsectarian Alliance Party councilors sealed the election win of Sinn Fein's Alex Maskey as lord mayor of Belfast - the first time the political wing of the I.R.A. has gained control of the city's council. The vote came after days of rioting and shootings that injured...
...while Gonzales may face future political opposition from both hard-line conservatives who oppose some of his social positions, as well as liberal Democrats who oppose his conservative record as a Bush loyalist, it is clear that his is a name to watch...
...Justice Department brief was filed in response to a motion filed by Reid's lawyers objecting to constraints on his contacts with his defense team. The prosecutors argued that Reid's communications must be carefully monitored by the government because he "is a committed loyalist who attempted to commit mass murder as part of a terrorist campaign against this nation - a campaign which deploys techniques of stealth and secrecy, including codes and 'hidden messages...
...headquarters of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, the armed service that operates across the province. Castlereagh is also a nest of spies, a base from which the secret wing of the police, Special Branch, trades information with British military intelligence and MI5, Britain's internal security service, about loyalist and republican terrorists. Room 220 is where informers working inside paramilitary groups arrange meetings with police. And it was here that the burglars struck...