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...hostility toward Chechens and other people of the Caucasus is endemic. Plus, Putin has been relentless in enforcing a media blackout. The war appears on TV only when there is an incident too large to ignore--like the Chechen suicide bombing in the neighboring republic of Northern Ossetia in August that killed 50 people and destroyed a military hospital--or when ministers boast that the rebels are on their last legs. Russian media owners know that critical coverage of Chechnya is the quickest way to get shut down, and foreign media are officially allowed there only on closely controlled government...
...Saheb, 15 km west of Damascus, may not be the last. "If they don't understand the message," he said, "Israel will ... defend itself whenever [it] is convinced that Syria is assisting the Palestinian terrorist organizations." Metula (pop. 2,000) and the other small towns along Israel's northern border have seen violent times before. During Israel's 18-year occupation of a strip of southern Lebanon, there were occasional rocket attacks. Now they are once again vulnerable as tension between Israel and Syria mounts. President Bashar Assad accused Israel of "trying to terrorize Syria and drag...
...knife used to kill Lindh "strengthened their case" against Mijailo Mijailovic. First detained two weeks after the Sept. 10 killing, Mijailovic denies involvement in the attack. Big Blow to ETA FRANCE AND SPAIN Police arrested 29 people suspected of links to the Basque terrorist group ETA in northern Spain and five in southwest France. Spanish Interior Minister Angel Acebes described the detentions as a serious blow that weakens ETA's ability to operate...
...that was fought in Iraq--with a swift march from the south to Baghdad--was not the war that Pentagon planners had anticipated. Right up to a few weeks before the start of hostilities, plans had called for the 4th Infantry Division to advance from Turkey through northern Iraq. Administration officials, especially Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, who led the negotiations with Ankara, had believed that Turkey would support the U.S. But the prospect of war in Iraq was deeply unpopular in Turkey, and on March 1, the Turkish parliament, dominated by the Islamist A.K. (Justice and Development) Party...
...close to Osama bin Laden and had been on the run for over a year. He was handed over to the U.S., local officials say, and has probably been transferred to Guantánamo Bay. Peace Setback ISRAEL A suicide bomb attack at a restaurant in the northern port of Haifa killed at least 19 people and injured up to 50. The Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. Hours later, Israeli helicopter gunships struck two locations in the Gaza Strip. The violence came just before Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. Conflict...