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...least one Harvard professor said he is concerned for his safety after federal officials said they suspected a serial bomber who has been known to target academics in the fatal bombing of a New Jersey man this weekend...
...wielding Palestinian killed a female Israeli soldier in the northern Israeli town of Afula, where a suicide bomber killed eight Israelis in April. Wahib Abu Alrub struck 19-year-old Liat Gabai in the head several times as she waited at the town's bus station. Abu Alrub said he committed the crime on behalf of the militant Islamic group Hamas to rehabilitate himself after being accused of collaborating with Israel...
...hands-off policy has broken down. Earlier this month, Islamic Jihad for the first time publicly threatened to attack Arafat's security personnel. Then the group struck hard within the Strip itself, when a suicide bomber bicycled into an Israeli army position, killing three soldiers. At the same time, Islamic Jihad activists were holding a provocative rally in Gaza City, brandishing rifles and promising more mayhem. Palestinian Justice Minister Freih Abu Middain declared that the militants had "crossed the red line." The Palestinian Authority banned unlicensed demonstrations and rounded up some 200 Islamic Jihad members...
...were killed and some 200 were wounded, broke out after police and soldiers turned up in force at the mosque in an attempt to prevent members of the fundamentalist group Hamas and Islamic Jihad from marching to protest the arrest of some 200 fellow activists detained after a suicide bomber had killed three Israeli soldiers earlier this month...
...funeral by jeering constituents. Palestinian authorities disclosed a rare outbreak of cholera, after initially denying the news. And, worst of all, Arafat's Islamic opponents pledged to continue their campaign of violence against Israel, and to include his security forces among their targets. Late last week a suicide bomber bicycled into a group of Israeli soldiers and police near the Israeli settlement of Netzarim in the Gaza Strip and detonated the explosives strapped to his body, killing three, wounding six and injuring five Arab bystanders, including a Palestinian police officer. Arafat's government responded to the suicide attack by rounding...