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Bin Laden realized the truth: Terrorism doesn't work
Five weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, Osama bin Laden publicly commanded his foot-soldiers to ramp up the violence against American civilians. But five weeks before his death, he privately instructed his lieutenants to refrain from killing any civilians....
Tags: Islam, Science, Caleb Carr, Johns Hopkins University, Abbottabad (Pakistan)
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The Palestinian Catch-22
Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinians face a Catch-22. As the Sun's editorial, "Mr. Abbas' mission" (Feb. 13) points out, a unity government between Mr. Abbas' Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza is a necessary precondition to...Tags: Ellicott City, Hamas, Yitzhak Rabin, Oslo (Norway), Mahmoud Abbas
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His efforts to heal rifts in region are praised
Sun Foreign StaffJERUSALEM - Many of the faithful believe that this ancient city is halfway to heaven, and the mourners gathered last night despite the weather that was cold and wet and miserable. Bundled in winter coats, about 1,000 people threaded their way through the...Tags: Israel, Yasser Arafat, Civil Unrest, Mahmoud Abbas, John Paul II
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Truce declared by Sharon, Abbas
Sun Foreign StaffSHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas declared an end yesterday to "acts of violence" in the long-running Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in hopes that silencing the gunfire will lead to a formal,...Tags: Hamas, Egypt, Civil Unrest, Mahmoud Abbas, Gaza Strip
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A Leap of Faith
Sun StaffKOCHAV YAAKOV, West Bank - The white van rolled past cement barricades, past a barbed-wire fence and an armed guard at the entry gate, past rows of cream-colored houses with red-tile roofs before pulling to a stop. Glenn and Gilla Jasper, a young Orthodox...Tags: Religious Texts, Rituals, Condos and Houses, Homes, Rentals
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Hope for peace between Palestinians, Israelis at highest point since '93
Los Angeles TimesJERUSALEM - It began, as it had last time and the time before, with a celebratory handshake and soaring rhetoric about a chance for peace in this ravaged land. Yesterday's landmark summit, during which Israel and the Palestinians announced they would...Tags: Hamas, Palestine, Gaza Strip, Peace Negotiations, Israel
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John Murphy on Israel's withdrawal from Gaza
First of two parts Jeanne, Baltimore: How did both Jews and Palestinians end up in Gaza, at least in fairly recent history, say from the time of the establishment of Israel in the 1940s? My understanding is that, at some point, Palestinians ended up in...Tags: Hamas, Harrisonburg (Harrisonburg, Virginia), Hospitals and Clinics, Civil Unrest, Mahmoud Abbas
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Breaking the ranks in Gaza
Sun Foreign StaffRAFIA YAM, Gaza Strip -- The pizza shop here has lost most of its customers, and the nearby hardware store is mostly empty, too. Avishai Nativ, the pizza maker, and Meir Rotenstein, owner of the hardware store, are among the first residents of this...Tags: Philosophy, Egypt, Yeshivas, Gaza Strip, Judaism
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Bribery charges against Israel's premier dropped
Sun Foreign StaffJERUSALEM - Israel's attorney general dropped a bribery case against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon yesterday, sparing him from criminal charges and clearing the way for his plan to evacuate Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip. Attorney General Menachem...Tags: Employment, Ehud Olmert, Trials, Bribery, Athens (Greece)
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Israeli gesture frees hundreds
Sun Foreign StaffRAMALLAH, West Bank - Rami Fadayel traveled yesterday from one world to another, from an Israeli prison cell to this scene in the West Bank: celebratory gunfire by Palestinian police, children waving Palestinian flags, roses from his mother, a kiss from...Tags: Armed Forces, Palestine, Civil Unrest, Mahmoud Abbas, Gaza Strip
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Rice pushes cooperation in Middle East
Los Angeles TimesRAMALLAH, West Bank - Conveying a growing sense of urgency, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called on Palestinians and Israelis yesterday to intensify contacts and resolve issues vital to an orderly Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. "There...Tags: Armed Forces, Civil Unrest, Mahmoud Abbas, Murder, Gaza Strip
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Iran called threat to peace between Arabs, Israelis
Sun Foreign StaffGAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israeli and Palestinian officials are warning that Iran is actively working to promote violence here and undermine chances for an Arab-Israeli peace settlement. Palestinian officials, usually reluctant to acknowledge external...Tags: Hamas, Lebanon, Armed Forces, Regional Authority, Foreign Aid
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