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...army into Bethlehem, where the bus bomber had lived. Army sources say they arrested five men connected with the attack. But the political fallout of the prisoner swap could keep Israel's military busy in the weeks ahead. The bus attack was carried out by a member of the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a subgroup of Arafat's Fatah. Fatah militiamen told TIME they felt pressure to act against Israel to show the Palestinian public they were just as effective in their struggle against Israel as Hizballah...
...Palestinian Authority, which has been trying - mostly in vain - to persuade the U.S. to put pressure on the Sharon government over settlements, the separation fence, and the conditions of occupation, while fudging its own obligations under President Bush's "roadmap" to close down Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigade. The PA has vowed to investigate the attack with the help of the FBI. Such a probe could prove uncomfortable, given the fact that the attackers appear to have been aware of the schedule of the American convoy. U.S. officials traveling into PA-controlled areas typically coordinate...
...frustration at their inability to break out of a strategic logjam that has made commonplace the spectacle of broken, bloodied bodies on the streets of Israel?s cities despite the best efforts of its military to kill the commanders and operatives of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the al-Aqsa Martyr?s Brigade. Some argue that Arafat is the terror kingpin, that the whole Oslo enterprise was a tragic mistake that Israel now has an opportunity to rectify by turning back the clock 12 years. Others see him a cynical power broker flitting between the different Palestinian constituencies and tolerating, rather...
...fragile road map the U.S. put forward four months ago to bring the two sides to a permanent settlement. Israeli tanks immediately reimposed a military cordon around most Palestinian cities and towns, locking them down and hunting out militants. Hamas officials, along with the militant Islamic Jihad and al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, tore up the cease-fire with a fiery call for earthshaking revenge. Bush Administration officials struggled to salvage peace prospects, while Secretary of State Colin Powell warned, "The end of the road map is a cliff that both sides will fall...
...Shanab, killed by a rocket attack on his car in Gaza, was the very Hamas leader with whom Abbas had negotiated the "hudna" truce agreement. Israel?s message to Abbas was clear: Either you destroy Hamas, or we will. And Hamas and Islamic Jihad - and surely, also, the Al Aqsa Martyr's Brigades after three of their men were killed Friday in Nablus - have vowed to take grisly revenge. They, too, have a message for Abbas: Step aside...