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...attack itself began around nine o'clock with Hizballah's traditional cross-border tactic - rockets and mortars launched from southern Lebanon began raining down on northern Israel. Then, in the ensuing chaos, a number of Hizballah foot soldiers crossed the border and ambushed a two-vehicle Israeli military patrol, killing three of the soldiers and dragging two others back into Lebanon. The attack was clearly planned in advance. The militants struck at a spot obscured from a nearby watchtower, and when a tank pursued them across the border soon after, explosives planted in the ground destroyed it. The four soldiers...
Night letters--menacing notes posted under the cover of darkness--have become a potent weapon in the Taliban's widening campaign against the symbols of authority in the new Afghanistan. The tactic is aimed at sowing doubt and fear among Afghans, with the ultimate goal of reimposing the Taliban's primeval control over parts of the country--and it's working. The campaign took a lethal turn three weeks ago, when Taliban fighters blew up a busload of Afghan laborers heading to work at a U.S. military base near Kandahar, killing eight. Atrocities like that are commonplace in America...
...tactic that seemed to fit perfectly with the President's motto, "Speak softly, but carry a big stick." Whether it was fully true, as Roosevelt later claimed, that it was U.S. sea power that compelled the Germans to back down, is open to some doubt. But with a compromise debt settlement reached at the Hague, it was becoming clear that the era of European interventions in the western hemisphere had come to an end. Long an empty declaration, the Monroe Doctrine, which had warned Europeans not to interfere in the Americas, was now a reality as a result of American...
...Senate bill's backers call Hastert's hearings a stalling tactic. "It's hard to conclude that this is anything but an effort to kill it for the year," says Arizona Republican Jeff Flake. But they can take the game on the road too. Senate Judiciary chairman Arlen Specter said last week he'd hold hearings--to boost the legislation...
...Europe are using financial strangulation as a tactic to oust the Hamas government and resurrect a discredited Fatah regime in the hope that it can cut a deal with Israel; President Mahmoud Abbas is playing a game of political chicken with Hamas, while Hamas is trying to combine the mutually exclusive options of responsible governance and armed struggle. Israel, for its part, has no faith in negotiations with the Palestinian leadership and has made clear it plans to unilaterally redraw its borders; all the while, it is responding to rockets fired from Gaza with military strikes. But the sum total...