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...undermined by Israel's campaign to strip Arafat of relevance, the Authority is weaker than ever. Its jealous assortment of security forces are at one another's throats, not Hamas'. Nor, says the general, do his men have the firepower to prevail. "Would Israel allow us to have a battalion armed with tanks so we could really fight Hamas?" he asked. "No. We are not strong enough for Hamas to fear us." Hamas, he says, "exists in the middle of the people. You can't fight them without fighting your brothers." Some Gazans love Hamas, others fear it. But potentially...
Without security, talk of democracy is academic. "If we can't stop people from being shot downtown, it's all just words," says Lieut. Colonel Steve Russell of the 1-22 Infantry Battalion, 4th Infantry Division's 1st Brigade based in Tikrit. By one measure, at least, security has improved: fewer U.S. troops are dying, at least for now. But other statistics are worrisome. By choosing symbolic moments for maximum psychological impact, suicide bombers and insurgent gunmen have been exacting high tolls from every segment of Iraq's combustible society. Last Tuesday was the deadliest day for Shi'ites since...
...already in use for Iraq, provides sea access to Central Asia and points east. Feith and other Pentagon officials stress that the aim is not just to move east but to change the nature of U.S. deployments. "We want to do things in a highly expeditionary way: land a battalion, train for a couple of months with a host nation, leave and then come back six months later," said Jones. "We want a family of bases that can go from cold to warm to hot." Whatever the call, Eastern Europe is ready: Bulgaria's fractious parliament last month approved...
...hear the soldiers tell it, they didn't stand a chance. Their attackers?roughly 100 in number?slipped into the army camp through a thicket of bamboo and fruit trees, armed with machine guns. The barracks were hopelessly vulnerable: almost 300 soldiers were asleep, while the rest of the battalion was either temporarily stationed elsewhere or on leave. And the sleeping soldiers were not even a fighting force but engineers building roads and canals in the province of Narathiwat in Thailand's deep south. When the shooting began, at about 1 a.m. on Jan. 4, the soldiers awoke with...
...Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, furious that a battalion base had been overrun, declared that the four soldiers killed that night "deserved to die." He imposed martial law in three of the five southern provinces and acknowledged that the south harbors an Islamic insurgent movement bent on creating unrest within Thailand. His security adviser, retired General Kitti Rattanachaya, claimed the attacks last week were the work of a little-known group, the Gerakan Mujahideen Islam Pattani (G.M.I.P.), which has close ties to the Kumpulan Mujahideen Malaysia?a militant Islamic outfit with links to more established terror groups Jemaah Islamiah...