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...remain a brutalizing and brutalized colonial power. Full sovereignty over Jerusalem? That is impossible, for Jerusalem belongs to nobody and everybody, and has to be shared. The full legal right for Palestinians to return to the Israel that they left in 1948, in the wake of the first Israeli-Arab war? Does any Palestinian really believe Israelis will accept demographic suicide? These painful recognitions must be accepted, for peace is impossible without compromises." Still, the paper urged Washington to reject Ariel Sharon's insistence that no talks could begin before seven days of calm have passed: "How can the absence...
...that kills everything in a 600-yard radius, it doesn't mater how fanatical you are, or how gorgeous you believe the women are who waiting for you in paradise. Every instinct of survival kicks in, and you run. The only difference between the Afghans and the Pakistani and Arab guest fighters is that the Afghans who were in the frontline trenches had the presence of mind to turn around and rob their non-Afghan comrades of their money and wristwatches before they took off. Welcome to Afghanistan...
...breakdown of the mooted cease-fire may reflect divisions on either side of the battle lines around the besieged city where some 12,000 Taliban fighters, including about 3,000 Arab, Pakistani, Chechen and Chinese volunteers mostly linked with Al Qaeda, are surrounded by thousands of Alliance troops. There are plainly sharp divisions between the foreigners and the Afghan Taliban, whose commanders have been negotiating with Northern Alliance commanders behind the backs of the foreigners and in defiance of Taliban leader Mullah Omar's orders to fight. Reports from refugees fleeing the city say hard-line foreigners had even executed...
Hassan stays at his post, calling for reinforcements and correcting the coordinates for the artillery piece that is holding up his advance. On the third attack, his men use light artillery to take out the left bunker and find six dead Arab fighters inside. As night falls, the Alliance takes Chagatai ridge, but at a cost of six dead and 30 wounded. The Taliban again proves it will not give up without a fight...
...place - that's been the boilerplate slogan among the Saudi terror mogul's worldwide supporters these past six weeks. But if the latest boast from al-Qaeda is anything to go by, they may mean it in more than just the I-am-Spartacus sense. The London-based Arab newspaper Al Hayat last Saturday quoted an al-Qaeda spokesman claiming that bin Laden has recruited at least ten lookalikes over the years, preparing them to play decoy in the same way that Saddam Hussein has reputedly done over the years...