Word: aqsa
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...MIDDLE EAST Palestinian police began patrolling the border between Gaza and Israel after new Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas ordered his security services to stop rocket attacks on Israel. Israeli officials approved the deployment when they resumed contact with Abbas' administration a week after breaking it off. The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, one of the militant groups responsible for the attacks, reportedly lent its support to Abbas' call for a cease-fire. In from the Cold AFGHANISTAN As part of an initiative to end the Taliban insurgency, the U.S. military released 81 suspected members of the group from its detention...
...liked Abbas, though he added that he hadn't yet seen any attempt by the new Palestinian chief to rein in the terrorist groups. Sharon's bottom line for a return to peace talks is for Abbas to confront the Islamists of Hamas and the gunmen of the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and halt the rocket and mortar attacks on Israeli towns near the Gaza Strip. The persistence of such attacks may jeopardize Sharon's plans to evacuate all Israeli settlers from Gaza as early as this summer, which is now viewed by U.S. officials as a critical first step toward...
...liked Abbas, though he added that he hadn't yet seen any attempt by the new Palestinian chief to rein in the terrorist groups. Sharon's bottom line for a return to peace talks is for Abbas to confront the Islamists of Hamas and the gunmen of the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and halt the rocket and mortar attacks on Israeli towns near the Gaza Strip. The persistence of such attacks could jeopardize Sharon's plans to evacuate all Israeli settlers from Gaza as early as this summer, which is viewed by U.S. officials as a critical first step toward peace...
...that the al-Aqsa Brigades have much faith in Abbas, nor are they being na?1/2ve. Like much of the Palestinian electorate, they simply see him as an "acceptable" if uninspiring choice, one who represents the only chance at this stage of restoring a peace process, and one whom, once elected, will owe a substantial political debt to the Martyr's Brigade and the broader militant Fatah rank and file of which they form part. That's because it was the militants who cajoled the imprisoned popular Fatah militant Marwan Barghouti into withdrawing from the race and throwing his support...
...armed intifada (Barghouti) against one favoring diplomacy (Abbas). Intead, Barghouti's withdrawal swept under the rug the profound divisions at the heart of Fatah, in the finest tradition of Arafat. And, like his predecessor, Abbas will be expected to be all things to all parties, with the al-Aqsa Brigade's endorsement serving as a rather heavy item of political of baggage shackled to his wrist as he assumes office...