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...hotel has now been restored to its former glory and once again, the "colonials" from Dili?this time U.N. workers helping to rebuild the country?crowd the dining room on weekends. The view is expansive, the menu limited. The cook has only two strings to her bow: fried beef or fried chicken. "If you are here for two days it's perfect," explained the manager with Basil Fawlty logic. "One day you can have beef. The next you can have chicken." Either way, a decision has to be made before 5 p.m., to allow the cook time to purchase...
...launch special forces into Afghanistan.) The Army is the most wary of all. Its troops are already stretched across the globe in an assortment of open-ended commitments and as many as two divisions might need to stay on for years when the shooting stops to help the country rebuild...
...other two alleged killers were not fresh from combat. Master Sergeant William Wright led investigators to his wife's strangled corpse on July 19. He had gone to Afghanistan in March with the 96th Civil Affairs Battalion, a unique unit that helps countries rebuild after war. Civil Affairs folks usually spend more time talking than shooting. The fourth alleged killer, Sergeant Cedric Griffin, who is accused of stabbing his wife nearly 50 times, had never been deployed to Afghanistan or anywhere else. He is an Army cook...
...given Shehadah's recent achievements, it is clear why Israeli security officials wanted him gone. Palestinian officials and Israeli security sources tell TIME the 49-year-old Gazan had transformed Hamas' terror operations over the past year. From Gaza, Shehadah used e-mail and cell-phone text messages to rebuild West Bank terror cells destroyed by the Israeli operations. According to Israeli intelligence officials, Shehadah recently smuggled about half a dozen highly skilled bombmakers from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank to replace men arrested or killed in recent Israeli sweeps there. These "masters," as Israeli intelligence calls them...
...after Sharon's decision, Defense Minister Ben-Eliezer, a Labor member, told aides, "I haven't agreed to reconquer any land." Ben-Eliezer's aides say the Israeli troops will probably stay inside the Palestinian towns only a few weeks. Labor doesn't want to see Israel rebuild the system of military government it dismantled when it handed over the towns to the Palestinian Authority under the Oslo accords. As a Defense Ministry official puts it, "We don't want to handle their sewage." Even if Sharon withstands coalition pressures, a prolonged reoccupation would bring international criticism. That risk...