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...says a U.S. State Department official, "but how long can the Israelis tolerate these attacks?" Israel may have bought some time with the arrest of the 10 Hamas members, plus the 20 more picked up after the Jerusalem bombing. Among those detained in the first roundup was Abdel Nasser Issa, the alleged ringleader and bombmaker in both recent attacks. Israeli officials believe that Issa's network was one of the pillars of Hamas' military wing in the West Bank and that by breaking it, they foiled Hamas' plans for at least four more suicide bombings and the kidnapping...
...killing and Tehran in the person of Gholam Hossein Shoorideh Chirazi Nejad. A well- traveled Iranian businessman with high-level government connections, Shoorideh prevailed upon a visiting Swiss businessman to help two friends get visas by having his company invite them as guests. One of the "friends" was Nasser Ghasmi Nejad, whose real purpose was apparently to rendezvous with Azadi and shepherd him back to Tehran. Shoorideh and Nejad thus joined the list of six alleged co-conspirators, including Azadi, Boyerahmadi, Sheikhattar and Edipsoy, who are to be tried in absentia at the same time as Vakili, Hendi and Sarhadi...
These anxieties are the result of Israel's long struggle for existence against rejectionist Arab states and terrorist organizations who have struggled to fulfill Gamal Abdel Nasser's dream to "push the Jews into...
...people, but with this dictator." As the Jan. 15 deadline approached, Bush concluded that Saddam had badly misjudged the situation. "Somewhere along the line," the President recalls, "I realized that he felt we were bluffing, and that he also felt another thing where he was just as wrong: the Nasser parallel -- he doesn't have to win to win. He can be seen as standing up against this onslaught, the West, the Yankees, and be seen as a victor ((even)) if he sues for peace." Saddam, thinks Bush, misread American newspaper editorials and arguments on television. "He was still living...
Saying different things to different audiences is not exactly uncommon in politics. And ever since Dwight Eisenhower complained that his golf game suffered because someone was "always yelling Nasser at the top of my backswing," every politician with national ambitions has been attuned to how his Middle East views play on the U.S. political scene. Today's Democratic contenders are no exception. Even those who are toying with isolationism make an exception for Israel. They know that American Jews are a bountiful source of campaign contributions and that they vote in numbers far exceeding their percentage of the population...