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...choice of targets points less to the Oklahoma City variety of domestic terrorism than to a foreign enemy looking to strike at symbols of American power and wealth. Terrorism is the dark art of sending political messages through spectacularly ugly acts of violence. And everything from motive, track record, modus operandi and operational capability put the terror networks of Osama Bin Laden at the top of the suspect list. His statement published Wednesday praising the attack but denying responsibility will be read as a fudge familiar from previous Bin Laden-linked strikes...
...NATO hopes its limited action will start a chain reaction of mutual trust in a place that seems chronically inured to it. The troops have to reap enough weapons to convince Macedonia's Slavic majority that the N.L.A. is committed to the larger task of forging a political modus vivendi with the Macedonian-speaking majority. And just how many weapons would that be? Sources close to NATO in Skopje said the alliance had arrived at a "credible" goal of gathering at least 3,000 weapons in 15 designated collection points. A spokesman for the Macedonian government said it would accept...
...other militant groups they had previously policed - indeed, the rank and file of Arafat's own Fatah organization tends to see the Islamists as brothers in arms, and has been coordinating activities on the ground in Gaza with those groups. And while suicide bombings inside Israel are the signature modus operandi of the Islamist groups, Fatah militants and members of Arafat's security forces also have been engaged in shooting and mortar attacks in Gaza and the West Bank...
...Benito's reign of terror created an untenable situation not only for those of us who had over the years constructed a modus vivendi with the established bullies, but also for those bullies themselves, who were now vulnerable to unthinkable humiliation at the hands of the brutish child...
...opinion, but he's in a no-win situation. If he uses strong-arm tactics to close the network down, that will create a messy political situation. But if he doesn't, he'll look like he's unable to follow through on his threats. Of course Putin's modus operandi is to deny any knowledge that these things are even going on, but in reality the NTV standoff presents him with a major political dilemma...