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...Zubaydah's comrades lunged at a cop and wrested away his AK-47. "There was a struggle for the gun, and Zubaydah was hit in the cross fire," Hussain says. He was shot in the stomach, the leg and possibly the groin. His gun-grabbing comrade, a Syrian named Abu al-Hasnat, was killed, and the third, unidentified suspect was also wounded, along with three officers. Once the al-Qaeda men were all handcuffed, the Americans moved in, comparing their catch?25 foreigners in all that night?to photos kept in a casebook of known al-Qaeda members. When...
...proposal will almost certainly be endorsed at next week's Arab summit in Beirut, but squabbling between Syria and the Saudis over the language of the plan could dilute it. While Abdullah says he is offering "full normalization"--meaning official trade, political and cultural relations between nations--Syrian officials want to change the language to "complete peace," a far less generous phrase that would remain unpalatable to Israel. Though Bush expressed tentative agreement with the Abdullah plan when it was unveiled last month, his Administration hasn't offered formal support for it. Said a senior White House aide...
...avoid a breakdown in negotiations before they even get off the ground, several unanswered questions must be discussed openly. The situation of the Golan Heights must be resolved before this proposal could receive Syrian support. Talks over refugees’ right of return must begin before any plan could receive the backing of states like Lebanon, which houses over 300,000 Palestinian refugees...
...though, according to Palestinian security officials, Hamas has acquired a potent new conventional weapon. Some months ago, according to these sources, Iranian-backed operatives of the Lebanese militant group Hizballah bought or stole a North Korean-designed rocket from Syrian soldiers and passed it on to Hamas. The weapon was smuggled into the Gaza Strip, where a special Hamas engineering unit was set up to replicate it. At the end of October, Hamas launched the first of its Qassam 1 rockets toward an Israeli town. The attack was a dud; the rocket landed in an empty field. But with...
...stability. Less than a week after devastating Hamas suicide attacks in Jerusalem and Haifa, and as Hamas activists were being rounded up by Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Abu Marzook outlined his defiant perspective from the group's exile base in the Syrian capital. Excerpts...