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...including those carrying out honorable programs, provide ideal cover, he said. A search of a Sarajevo office of the Saudi High Commission for Relief turned up anti-Semitic and anti-American videotapes and children's pamphlets as well as maps of Washington and photos of U.S. military installations. A raid this month on the offices of Al-Haramain netted tapes calling for attacks on foreign peacekeepers, said Sylvester. One recurring theme: the tale of the "poison roast," in which Jews invite Islamic children to a deadly feast. "Why are they teaching Bosnian children to hate America?" he asked. (Saudi officials...
...Israelis had warned Arafat in advance that they were coming. Their orders were to destroy half the buildings in Arafat's compound (called the Muqata'a), which they did over the course of a six-hour onslaught, but to leave Arafat unscathed, just as they had in a similar raid starting in late March. This new attack was payback for a bombing the day before that killed 17 Israelis. But the bombing had been claimed by Islamic Jihad, a radical Palestinian group that does not answer to Arafat and, moreover, opposes him. So why did the Israelis level their retaliation...
...variety of places. But we're way past that now. Take the just-released Sinatra in Hollywood (Reprise/Turner), a six-disc anthology of Frankie's film singing. It is no small accomplishment that its producers persuaded the movie studios who hold the rights to this material to allow a raid on their vaults. Some of what the producers found--a few songs from an abortive cartoon version of Finian's Rainbow, Soliloquy from Carousel, a film Sinatra walked out on--is interesting, if not top-notch, Frank. But as there have already been enough Sinatra collections to make you want...
...version of the first mission has already been told. In 2001 the New York Times Magazine published an article by Gregory Vistica, alleging that a platoon led by Kerrey slaughtered unarmed women and children during a night raid in the Mekong Delta. Kerrey had not spoken publicly about the assault before the Times story and challenged some of the interpretations that were put upon his conduct. Those seeking the definitive account of the attack will not find it here. Kerrey says, quite plainly, "I remember very little of what happened in a clear and reliable way." What he does remember...
...raid on Jan. 23, 2000, was nothing like the movies - no guns, no sirens, no man on a megaphone telling Jon Johansen, 16, to come out with his hands up. "It was very nice and quiet," Johansen says, recalling the day when three officers - two from ?kokrim, Norway's economic-crime investigation unit, and one local policeman - visited his house in Steinsholt, a small town about an hour and a half southwest of Oslo. They went into his basement office and confiscated two computers, some data CDs, a cell phone and its charger. What had Johansen done? He'd just...