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...Where there is a fence, there is no terror. Where there is no fence, there is terror." TZACHI HANEGBI, Israeli Public Security Minister, on the need to complete a controversial security barrier in the West Bank following two Palestinian suicide bombings in unfenced southern Israel...
...Last week the age of terror caught up with Nepal. On Aug. 31 the Iraqi extremist group Ansar al-Sunna announced that it had killed 12 Nepalese migrant workers kidnapped outside Ramadi 11 days earlier. A grisly video showed two militants slitting one hostage's throat and holding up his severed head before they went on to shoot the other 11 in their heads. The group's statement admonished Nepal "and other lapdogs of the Jews and the Christians," adding: "Do not sympathize with this impure group. They have left their country and traveled thousands of kilometers to work with...
...journalists to spare their lives," the Jordanian Islamic Action Front declared in a rare display of unity with the national government. Negotiating a release, though, is a tricky business. "The problem is, the nature and control of these groups are evolving and radicalizing all the time," says French terror expert Roland Jacquard, who has worked as an adviser to the Elysée in the hostage crisis. "Alliances are made and cut over night. It's total chaos." Will the rapprochement between France's Muslims and the rest of society last? Some say that the government should reward the country...
...manifested in the emergence of suicide bombers, although the Chechens depart from conventional Qaeda practice by using women in this role - a habit learned, perhaps, from the secular nationalists of Sri Lanka's Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam, the movement that claims authorship of suicide bombing as a terror weapon. Simultaneous attacks on two airliners, of course, is another Qaeda operational signature...
...Chechen insurgency evolve into something a lot nastier and more dangerous. Then again, Chechens blowing up airliners and taking children hostage simply compounds anti-Chechen militancy among ordinary Russians, and that translates, once again, into political support for Putin's hard line. The Russian president's "war on terror," then, and the Chechen rebels' war on Russia, may have simply become a permanent part of Russian life...