Word: terrorisms
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...funding to a Hamas-led government, the U.S. and Israel both found themselves struggling to find a workable response to an unanticipated reality. The only way the U.S.-Israeli effort to isolate a Hamas-led Palestinian government will succeed, right now, is if Hamas were to launch new terror strikes against Israel. And that's precisely the reason why Palestinian observers and Israeli security analysts expect the radical Islamist movement to maintain and extend the cease-fire it proclaimed a year...
...Hamas, having assumed responsibility for managing the infrastructure of Palestinian life and ensuring Palestinian well-being, continued terrorism - which would provoke Israeli retaliation and international sanction - would carry a potentially prohibitive political cost. Instead, Hamas will focus largely on domestic political reform on assuming the reins of power, and it will likely simply agree to disagree with Abbas on the issues of recognizing Israel and embracing existing treaties. But not embracing those treaties doesn't necessarily mean negating them. Hamas may calculate that as long as it refrains from terror attacks and delivers on promises of good governance...
...President Bush normally takes the absolutist position in the war on terror - on Gitmo, on wiretaps, on enemy combatants - and lets everyone else complain that he is too hard over, too much at war. But here the roles are reversed: the president is dug in on the deal and the public, at least as represented by the Congress, is taking the absolutist, no surrender, position...
This attitude stands in marked contrast to the sense of skepticism, even resignation, with which the general public has greeted the periodic raising and lowering of the terror-alert levels. Especially worrisome is the extent to which the public appears willing to second-guess official directives. According to a Columbia University study released in August 2003, 90% of Americans polled said they would not evacuate their homes in a time of crisis based only on a government order to do so. Public-health officials are increasingly worried that weak public confidence in official guidance will undermine their efforts to carry...
...retired U.S. Special Forces soldier helped the FBI to uncover an alleged nascent terror cell in Toledo, Ohio, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney in Cleveland Thomas Getz. Three men, two U.S. citizens originally from Jordan and one U.S. resident from Lebanon, had asked the former U.S. commando for help in coordinating "jihad training exercises," according the indictment. But what the suspects didn't know was that the retired soldier was working with investigators all along...