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These days, Hamas doesn't need to recruit suicide bombers; there are almost too many volunteers. Men embittered by years of misery and humiliation gather at the feet of a new generation of Hamas preachers like the charismatic Sheik Hassan Yussef. His Friday sermons, full of mythic stories of great Islamic battles but also highly critical of Arafat's corrupt regime and its compromises with Israel, urge them toward violent confrontation with the Jews. As Hamas leaders like Yussef tell their adherents, Palestinians may not have tanks or gunships, but they have one thing Israel doesn't: men willing...
Ever since Arafat went home in 1994 to run the self-governing body set up by the Oslo peace accords, Hamas has posed a threat to him as well as to Israel. Arafat lets Hamas recruit, build bombs, send out suicide missions, when it suits him. Hamas in turn has tolerated the Palestinian Authority in the name of unity, but has always "reserved the right to resist the occupation." Whenever Hamas' unyielding violence has challenged Arafat too hard, he has cracked down. He arrested hundreds of militants and removed firebrand Hamas preachers from their mosques in 1996, after a torrent...
...Qaeda, the rugged, war-torn wasteland of Afghanistan was a kind of paradise. Under the benevolent tolerance of the Taliban, the bosses of international terrorism found just the kind of sanctuary they needed to recruit, train and plot their deadly attacks. But by last week any members of al-Qaeda who had escaped U.S. daisy-cutter bombs and Afghan bounty hunters were on the lam and in desperate search for a new base. Besides such fugitives, there are an unknown number of operatives safely lodged in secret cells scattered from the hinterlands of Yemen to the jungles of the Philippines...
...even though Harvard couldn't quite slam the door shut on their hosts, playing opponents like Michigan is a win-win scenario for the Crimson. It means exposure. Now, Mazzoleni can tell a potential recruit that if you come to Harvard you'll enjoy some of the best academics in the country as well as the best competition the nation has to offer on the ice. After Saturday night, he can now say that you'll be in a position to beat those teams, as well...
...annually” to Hamas. The Treasury said HLF supports Hamas by “direct fund transfers” to organizations affiliated with Hamas, financial support of schools “encouraging children to become suicide bombers,” and by enabling it “to recruit suicide bombers by offering support to their families...