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...clear that Bush now takes the Israeli-Palestinian conflict seriously too. His performance was the primary reason that almost all the Arab, Israeli and Palestinian participants left last week's meetings expressing cautious optimism. But there are countless ways the process could unravel. If Abbas fails to rein in the militants, Sharon could be forced to respond aggressively and expose Bush to charges from hard-liners at home that he's jeopardizing Israel's security in a misguided quest to be a peace broker. Just two days after Aqaba, Hamas, one of the most militant terrorist groups operating...
...season started to unravel during the Crimson’s early-October west coast swing with 4-1 and 2-0 losses to the University of San Francisco and then-No.25 Santa Clara, respectively...
...native sons - 20 to 24- year-old residents of the desperately poor neighborhood of Sidi Moumen in eastern Casablanca, one of many shanty towns that ring Moroccan cities. Testimony of one terrorist captured during the attack, and two others arrested in the following days, has allowed police to quickly unravel the plot and characters. Officials say most of the bombers were undereducated, unemployed and without hope of escaping Sidi Moumen's dilapidated, crowded, refuse-strewn streets - oases of despair where joblessness exceeds the estimated national rate of 20% and illiteracy runs over 50%. Such conditions are easily exploited by radical...
...arrests could also help investigators unravel the inner workings of al-Qaeda. FBI sources say Attash, a key suspect in the October 2000 bombing of the U.S.S. Cole, met that January in Kuala Lumpur with two Sept. 11 hijackers and Southeast Asian jihadists. Because Attash once worked as one of bin Laden's bodyguards--until losing a foot several years ago in Afghanistan--investigators hope to press him on where his boss is hiding. --By Tim McGirk/Islamabad and Elaine Shannon/Washington, with reporting by Ghulam Hasnain/Karachi
...discovery often leads to greater uncertainty. "There aren't a lot of infectious diseases like this," says Dr. Ian Lipkin, a virologist at Columbia University. "This is a new virus we haven't encountered before, and we still don't understand a lot about its behavior." Scientists will eventually unravel much of this mystery. They just need more time. Here's hoping they can move as fast as the disease itself...