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...though, according to Palestinian security officials, Hamas has acquired a potent new conventional weapon. Some months ago, according to these sources, Iranian-backed operatives of the Lebanese militant group Hizballah bought or stole a North Korean-designed rocket from Syrian soldiers and passed it on to Hamas. The weapon was smuggled into the Gaza Strip, where a special Hamas engineering unit was set up to replicate it. At the end of October, Hamas launched the first of its Qassam 1 rockets toward an Israeli town. The attack was a dud; the rocket landed in an empty field. But with...
...religious-political-military organization at the center of the current showdown between Israel and Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority (PA). Defined as a terrorist organization by Israel, the U.S. and the European Union because of its suicide attacks on Israeli civilians, it has nonetheless emerged as a potent and popular challenger to Arafat's own authority...
Sovagovic plays him with a sweet, hopeful patience. Indeed, all the actors in No Man's Land are wonderfully alive, fractious and unpredictable. Their performances also help break down the schematics and turn this into an emotionally potent, powerfully thoughtful and finally tragic experience...
...have the budget reports that say the U.S. will be running deficits through 2004. He'll have the analyses that insist it was Bush's tax cut, not Sept. 11 or defense spending, that did it. And he'll have the potent economic argument that the only sure way for Washington to kick off another ten-year expansion - like the one, ahem, that just ended under the new guy - is to put the budget back in balance and soothe the savage bond markets that run up long-term interest rates when the feds run up the debt. (The economic ideal...
Bonamassa’s thick guitar and husky growl anchor the album, and are most welcome when he pounds out a down-home shuffle, “Trouble Waiting.” If his musical voice isn’t distinctive, it is at least passionate. Bonamassa crafts some potent guitar solos throughout, firing out stripped-down licks and reaching aching, soaring heights on “If Heartaches Were Nickels.” Bonamassa was weaned on all forms of the blues, and dutifully pays his respects to the masters who played in an era when the blues actually...