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...fewer Israelis (117) have been killed by Palestinians in that time. But a spate of armed assaults by Arabs last year prompted the army to expand the role of undercover units, which were first deployed against the intifadeh in 1988. Today the sayarot -- their predecessors made the raid on Entebbe in 1976 a synonym for military derring-do -- are conducting 200 or more operations every day in the occupied territories, though many of those sorties have limited objectives, such as gathering intelligence or spotting rock throwers...
...army insists that the soldiers are abiding by the rules. "We are not killers. We only try to catch the fugitives and make them talk," said Amir Rosenberg, one of the five commandos in the first raid in search of Jaradat; Rosenberg was shot to death by a Red Eagle last month. "I have no problem with what we do. Whom are we talking about? About people who have already killed or committed a terrorist act." Added a comrade: "Believe me, if we used our guns as freely as the media say, the ground would be littered with hundreds...
Clearly, mistakes -- sometimes lethal ones -- are made, a fact the army concedes and says it is working to avoid. Before the unsuccessful raid to find Jaradat, the commandos who led it made a dozen mock attacks in which soldiers played the roles of Palestinians in the house. Each drill tested the raiders' adherence to the open-fire regulations; often they failed, "shooting" a "suspect" who moved merely to put his hand in an empty pocket...
...dismiss as absurd the civil defense training courses imposed on them at school and work. They refer to the courses as grob, taken from the first two letters of the words for civil defense -- grazhdanskaya oborona. Translation of grob: coffin. The cynicism was justified. In 1988 an accidental air-raid alert in the industrial city of Perm sent hundreds of thousands of people scrambling for safety. As a test of civil defense, the accident proved a disaster. Perm residents found many shelters locked, flooded or infested with mosquitoes...
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