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High-altitude, low-opening parachutes Sniper guns with laser scopes Explosives and grenades Bulletproof body armor Secure, satellite-linked laptops Night-vision goggles Earphones and throat microphones Lasers for directing aircraft and missiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Search And Destroy | 10/15/2001 | See Source »

...SNIPER TEAMS: Lie in wait for targets to emerge; "long-gun" sharpshooters can hit a man from as far away as one-third of a mile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Search And Destroy | 10/15/2001 | See Source »

...Israeli operation began late Monday, with the purpose of stopping a fusillade a sniper fire sparked by that day's assassination of radical Palestinian leader Abu Ali Mustafa. The shooting prompted Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to make good on a previous warning that Israel would not tolerate any further gunfire directed at Gilo, which Israel regards as part of Jerusalem but the Palestinians see as a settlement because it was built on land annexed after 1967. Beit Jala is a predominantly Christian Palestinian village that lies across a ravine within rifle range, and its residents have repeatedly complained to Arafat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle of Beit Jala Highlights Mideast Cease-fire Woes | 8/29/2001 | See Source »

...kamikaze guerrilla sent across the border on a hang-glider; while in the West Bank and Gaza militant youths were confined to stones and gasoline bombs and the occasional handgun. Oslo has brought the different dimensions into physical proximity, meaning the stone-throwing youth can be turned into a sniper or recruited as a suicide bomber. And that's created a security nightmare for Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the "L" Word — Lebanon — Now Haunts the West Bank | 8/28/2001 | See Source »

...settlers cheered, of course, as their army reentered Abu Sneineh. They'd been calling for its reoccupation since a ten-month-old baby girl was killed by Palestinian sniper fire earlier this year. But they were angry when the Israeli forces retreated after two hours, during which time they'd been under continuous light-arms fire from Palestinian security forces and gunmen from various militant political factions. The gunmen crowed that they'd forced the Israelis out; the Israeli army pooh-poohed that claim and said the operation was simply a warning that they could enter the area any time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mideast: Between Hebron and Hell | 8/24/2001 | See Source »

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