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After a suicide bomber in Jerusalem killed 17 people the day after the failed hit on Rantisi, Sharon told his Cabinet ministers, according to Gissin, "Jewish blood can't come cheap. We aren't going to be put on the altar of the road map." Gissin maintains that Sharon's revulsion to terrorist attacks on Jewish civilians dates from the 1950s, when there were frequent lethal penetrations of Israel from the West Bank, then controlled by Jordan. Sharon, a young army officer, took command of Unit 101, a counterterrorism outfit that launched reprisal attacks on Palestinian villages there...
...latter-day version of North Carolina's legendary hermits and hunters, Rudolph disappeared in early 1998, shortly after the FBI received a tip that he might be the Birmingham bomber. He had fled his trailer, leaving the lights on, the door open and the air conditioning running and taking a month's worth of food, including raisins, green beans, tuna and trail mix. More than 200 federal agents fanned out across a 500,000-acre swath of North Carolina's craggy peaks, caves and snake-infested underbrush. Helicopters with infrared scopes scoured the land; listening posts and cameras were...
...beaten a woman just for accepting a car ride from a man she wasn't related to. After the May 12 terrorist attacks that killed 34 in Riyadh, Khashoggi ratcheted up his campaign, targeting religious hard-liners sympathetic to Islamist radicals. He published a cartoon (below) depicting a suicide bomber festooned with fatwas--religious edicts issued by Muslim clerics--instead of bombs. "We used to say that we are a good society, that the bad ideas come from abroad," Khashoggi, who describes himself as an Islamist, explained in a TIME interview three days before his dismissal. "Now we are talking...
...associate and convert to militant Islam. German police said they have traced numbers found in Ganczarski's address book to radicals tied to the 9/11 attacks. And in Belgium, Chechen Suicide Attack Russia At least 20 people died and a dozen more were wounded when yet another female suicide bomber blew up a bus carrying air force servicemen and civilians from the Prokhladny air force base to the nearby city of Mozodokin. Moscow blamed the bombing on Chechen Islamic extremists. This, the third such bombing in less than a month, came after the Kremlin-backed government in Chechnya said...
...There's a new mood in travel these days-a steady and quietly pervasive neurosis. Wherever you go, it seems, there is something or someone waiting to screw you up. If it isn't the SARS superspreader in the next hotel room, it's some fool of a suicide bomber boarding your bus. Plan your itinerary, by all means. But first of all check the somber travel advisories and wild-eyed security alerts, the shrill breaking-news bulletins, the evacuation routes. And read the small print on your travel insurance...