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CAPTURED. ABU ABBAS, 54, leader of a Palestinian terrorist group that hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in 1985, shooting American Leon Klinghoffer to death and pushing him, in his wheelchair, into the Mediterranean Sea; in a raid by U.S. Special Forces; in Baghdad, where he had been living freely. Abbas is in the custody of the U.S. If extradited to Italy, where he was convicted, he would face a life sentence; if tried in the U.S., he could face death...
...early March, American soldiers chased suspected Taliban and al - Qaeda fighters across the border and met resistance from the Pakistani Frontier Corps. After one Pakistani militiaman was shot dead, the U.S. troops were ordered back to Afghanistan, according to an Islamabad antiterrorist official.- By Tim McGirk Dire Straight THE MEDITERRANEAN As terror concerns increased with the hostilities in Iraq, the 13-km-wide Strait of Gibraltar south of Spain got a new security system. NATO began quietly escorting allied civilian ships through the Strait to prevent a repeat of the attack on the U.S.S. Cole in October 2000 - when...
...became academic: Franks was getting all the time he needed to prepare his massive strike force. Now, with a war as little as a week or two away, the plan looks remarkably similar to what Franks proposed more than a year ago: five carriers are on station in the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf, the equivalent of five divisions have been dispersed to positions on Iraq's borders, and a total of 250,000 troops are standing by in the region...
...timetables and specifics of Palestinian statehood and ending settlement activities. That's an uncomfortable place for a prime minister who has long championed Israeli settlement of the occupied territories, and whose party only last year reaffirmed its opposition to a Palestinian state anywhere between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean...
Then there's the pipeline from northern Iraq to the Turkish Mediterranean coast, which until recently exported up to hundreds of thousands of barrels a day of Iraqi crude, all of it outside the U.N.-sanctions system. Long dependent on Iraqi oil, Jordan illicitly imports some 110,000 bbl. a day, for which it pays a below-market price directly to the Iraqi government. Yet another pipeline runs from northern Iraq to Banias, a Syrian port, with a second outlet in Lebanon. It currently carries some 230,000 bbl. a day, generating annual revenue estimated at more than $1 billion...