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...almost completely ineffectual, according to Arafat's senior aides. "Our capability is zero," Jibril Rajoub, head of preventive security in the West Bank, told TIME. "Our motivation also is zero." In today's climate, Palestinian commanders are loath to be seen doing the Israelis' bidding by arresting militants. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, part of Arafat's Fatah organization, has claimed responsibility for three of the nine fatal terrorist attacks on Israelis since Arafat was freed. Palestinian cabinet ministers say Arafat has no incentive to stop paying Brigades activists because they will only turn to new paymasters in the radical Islamic...
...cooperation, Israeli forces moved back into Nablus and Qalqilya. Among those arrested in the West Bank raids was Issam Abu Bakr, a senior official of Yasser Arafat's Fatah organization in Nablus. Troops went from house to house in the Balata refugee camp, a main base of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, responsible for a recent suicide bombing near Tel Aviv in which two Israelis were killed. ITALY Mamma Mafia Two carloads of gangsters sped through the southern town of Lauro di Nola, exchanging gunfire and terrifying passers by. When the cars stopped, members of two organized-crime families jumped...
...almost completely ineffectual, according to Arafat's senior aides. "Our capability is zero," Jibril Rajoub, head of preventive security in the West Bank, told Time. "Our motivation also is zero." In today's climate, Palestinian commanders are loath to be seen doing the Israelis' bidding by arresting militants. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, part of Arafat's Fatah organization, has claimed responsibility for three of the nine fatal terrorist attacks on Israelis since Arafat was freed. Palestinian cabinet ministers say Arafat has no incentive to stop paying Brigades activists because they will only turn to new paymasters in the radical Islamic...
...tighter than ever. Half of the Palestinian population of the West Bank and Gaza now lives below the poverty line, and even middle class residents of established West Bank towns are reduced to begging neighbors for assistance. Few observers of Palestinian politics are surprised that Hamas and the Al Aqsa Martyr's Brigades are having no trouble recruiting suicide bombers, because there's nothing in the present situation that offers young Palestinians hope for a better future...
Even by the standards of Palestinian refugee camps, Jenin is gruesomely special. Since the start of the Aqsa intifadeh in September 2000, the camp's activists, drawn from the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Islamic Jihad and Hamas, have orchestrated at least 28 suicide attacks on Israeli targets. An internal document of Arafat's Fatah organization, written in September last year and captured by the Israelis during a recent sweep, characterized the camp's people as "ready for self-sacrifice with all their means...It is not strange that Jenin has been termed the capital of suicide attackers...