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...their redoubts and degraded the enemy to a few hundred fighters, the country still seethes with militants intent on destroying the Karzai government and attacking the Western soldiers who back it. A senior Afghan official says the government's opponents have begun a new phase of more brazen, "open" terror attacks...
...effective have the Israelis been in disrupting the terror network of Hamas, the militant group responsible for most of the bomb attacks in Israel this year? Quite effective, it appears. Israeli intelligence officials tell TIME that since the start last spring of the West Bank offensive known as Operation Defensive Shield, 98% of the members of Hamas' military wing who are known to them in the area have been killed or arrested--a total of 70 men. With the Israeli army still in or around every West Bank town, it's no longer possible for cells to organize across different...
...blows against Hamas have prompted a debate in its ranks. Many of its activists are urging a temporary halt to terror attacks, fearing the group could be wiped out as a political as well as a military force. But others, particularly Hamas leaders based outside the West Bank and Gaza, argue that it's more important than ever to show Israel that it can't stop Hamas. Some Hamas chiefs are worried that the debate could turn into a full-blown power struggle if the health of spiritual leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin continues to decline. Top Hamas officials tell TIME...
...place where the President came and told the exhausted rescue workers, "I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you, and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon." President Bush has been determined to keep his commitment to eliminate global terrorism. An appropriately large and enduring tribute at the site will remind future generations of that commitment. Recalling these attacks and their aftermath will remind people today that we need to be unyielding in completing the war on terror. And it will remind people tomorrow that we must never let something like...
Second, the actual risk of being a terror victim is not merely small--it is unknown and unknowable. Economists make a distinction between "risk" and "uncertainty." Risk refers to hard mathematical odds. Uncertainty refers to situations in which the odds are anybody's guess...