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...Military brass at the Guantanamo naval base took pains over the weekend to spotlight the dietary, medical and religious provisions made for the captives. Congress, meanwhile, is poised to approve construction of new prison units at Guantanamo designed with terrorist detention in mind - a project that could turn Gitmo, until last month a neglected Caribbean naval station, into a key military Alcatraz. "We're going to be in this sort of thing for a long time," said Alaska Senator Ted Stevens. And that includes, it seems, the disagreement over how to label these prisoners as well as house them...
With that history, Israelis have been infuriated by the muted world reaction to the Karine A seizure. It took a visit to Washington by a high-ranking delegation from Israeli military and naval intelligence to get the State Department to link Arafat's Authority to the arms, though the U.S. won't tie Arafat directly to the boat. Arafat's advisers say he expects the U.S. to use his embarrassment over the Karine A to make him crack down on Hamas and another violent group, Islamic Jihad, a long-standing demand by Israel and the U.S. "I don't envy...
Still, it's hard to imagine the P.A.'s giving up on gunrunning altogether. The three men blamed for the Karine A operation--Fathi Razem, deputy chief of Arafat's navy; Fuad Shubaki, head of finance for the National Security Force; and Adel Mughrabi, a naval officer--are in Arafat's jails now. But there was sublime hypocrisy in that. The panel that fingered them was headed by Abdel Razak Majaideh, head of the National Security Forces in Gaza. Last year, according to senior Palestinian security sources, Majaideh was discovered to have been running a mortar factory in Gaza...
...Since 1997, the group has been conducting detailed surveillance of possible targets in Singapore, mostly U.S.-related, according to the police. The principal target appears to have been a shuttle bus that conveys visiting U.S. naval personnel between Sembawang Wharf and the Yishun subway station. A second plan was to allegedly bomb U.S. naval vessels in Singapore waters. Other members of the group had apparently wanted to attack U.S. airplanes at a Singapore air base...
...AFGHANISTAN Detainees Airlifted The first of more than 300 Afghan war prisoners began a 12,800-km journey from Kandahar airstrip to a U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, chained to their seats aboard a C-17 cargo plane. The operation was conducted amid heightened security after unknown attackers opened fire outside the airport perimeter fence as the first flight took off. The detainees included a handful of prominent al-Qaeda or Taliban leaders - but not those most sought by the U.S., or three former Taliban government officials who surrendered to the new Afghan government...