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...Taking police action against Hamas has become almost unthinkable for the PA leadership now, and the killing of Sheikh Yassin may have scuppered attempts by the PA to negotiate a modus vivendi after the Israelis withdraw. Many analysts on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian divide have concluded that Monday's killing will likely strengthen Hamas at the expense...
...train blasts also differed from the Basque group's traditional modus operandi in important ways: the absence of warning, which ETA usually gives; the deliberate targeting of civilians; and the sheer scale of the operation. Despite the government's professed certainty of ETA's guilt, doubts began to creep in. Then on Thursday evening, Acebes announced that in Alcala de Henares, a town about 19 miles northeast of Madrid where three of the ill-fated trains had originated and which the fourth had passed through, police found an abandoned white Renault Kangoo van containing seven copper detonators and a tape...
PROVIDENCE, R.I.—For the fourth time in four seasons, the Harvard men’s hockey team is heading back to the ECAC semifinals. And after a season of surprises, the Crimson has finally hit the stride that many pundits, myself included, thought would be its modus operandi from...
...Andrew Tan, a terrorism expert at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University, argues that the recent violence is most likely a local affair: "This is just the latest in a long line of bombings, assassinations, arms robberies and school burnings that have been going on since the '70s. The modus operandi bears absolutely no hallmarks of groups such as JI or al-Qaeda. If it had been either of them, we would have seen the use of car bombs, ammonium nitrate, attacks on civilians, and the like. If JI had burned those schools, they would have done it with the students...
...season is just three games old, but it seems the Harvard men’s basketball team has already established a modus operandi: fall behind by double digits in the first half and come back to make a game of it before ultimately succumbing...