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Compounding the horror of Wednesday's terror attack at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem was the fact that it was not unexpected. Israel has been bracing for new terror strikes ever since its air force last week assassinated the military commander of Hamas in a Gaza air raid that also killed 14 Palestinian civilians. On Tuesday, Israeli security forces had foiled two planned attacks, but a third bomber managed to injure a handful of civilians at a Jerusalem falafel stand. And those forces had been on maximum alert in Jerusalem at the very moment when a bomb planted...
...most of the terrorists stayed in Pakistan. Many of them, especially the non-Arab Uzbeks, Chechens and Sudanese, operate like bandits in the tribal areas, where they raid U.S. outposts across the border. The militants have fiercely resisted Pakistani efforts to arrest them. On June 25, several hundred Pakistani paramilitaries raided a mud-walled fortress in the mountains of south Waziristan, a rifle shot away from the Afghan border. According to a Pakistani intelligence source, they had help from several CIA operatives, who picked out the Qaeda refuge with satellite photos and electronic eavesdropping. The Uzbek fugitives had heavy machine...
...Today's testimony concerns a joint military and militia raid on the home of pro-independence leader Manuel Carrascalao's in April 1999. One witness recounts seeing a friend killed, before being shot and stabbed himself; Guterres yawns. Another claims to have helped dispose of the bodies of the 11 people killed that day; Guterres smiles at a joke from one of his six lawyers. A third says he was forcibly conscripted into Guterres' militia under fear of death. The defendant taps his foot and glances around the room. Guterres was videotaped before the raid calling for the destruction...
...Fleischer said Tuesday that "This heavy-handed action does not contribute to peace." Even in Israel itself, the decision to use a one-ton bomb dropped by an F-16 drew strong criticism, and even Israeli military officials called it an "error." Indeed, despite Sharon's lauding of the raid's "success," the Israeli Defense Force and Shin Bet security service on Wednesday launched an investigation into its failures...
...prison uniforms. In each case it is the mighty who have fallen. The church scandal was as much about complicit Cardinals as about wayward priests; the FBI field agents did their job, but their careerist bosses stuffed all the clues into their desk drawers. As for the CEOs, they raid company coffers to pay off margin calls or build new mansions; awash in options, they manage the stock price instead of the company; as their business falls into bankruptcy and the layoffs pile up, they float away on golden parachutes--or yachts bought with company loans. "I've fully understood...