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...Last Father-Daughter Chat," about the deaths in Jerusalem of Dr. David Applebaum and his daughter Nava, 20, victims of a suicide bomber the night before her wedding, was a heartrending piece [WORLD, Sept. 22]. As an emergency-medicine physician, Applebaum showed absolute concern for victims, whether Palestinian or Israeli, and his work to build better, more efficient facilities to treat the sick and wounded made him a role model for the world. How tragic that his life was cut short by those who represent the antithesis of everything he stood for. ROBERT ISLER Fair Lawn...
...Tehran-funded Islamic Jihad. A senior Islamic Jihad source in Gaza told TIME that Iranian military officers visited Ein Saheb in early summer, intending to equip it specifically for Islamic Jihad. If the Israeli strike was meant to stop the Palestinian suicide-bombing campaign, it failed. Last Thursday a bomber killed himself and wounded two Israeli soldiers and another Palestinian at a checkpoint in the West Bank. Hopes for a cease-fire also faded when Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie, sworn in on Tuesday, threatened to quit on Thursday over differences with Yasser Arafat on the control of Palestinian security...
Many did continue developing military technology. After 1991 Nabil al-Rawi worked on electrical controls for unmanned drones and, most recently, Stealth bomber--detection radar. Such projects were meant to be hidden from U.N. inspectors, who, the Iraqis have long asserted, were riddled with American spies. The Furat facility just south of Baghdad was a known nuclear site before the first Gulf War. Last fall the White House released satellite photos showing a new building at the site and suggested it was designed for covert nuclear research. But al-Rawi claims it was rebuilt to produce radar and antiaircraft systems...
Nevertheless, only one suicide bomber needs to slip into Israel to wreak carnage on the country's streets. Israeli intelligence officials say Hamas still has the ability to regenerate and deploy new cells faster than Israeli forces can uncover them. That explains, an official says, how two suicide bombers from the same cell in Ramallah managed to hit their targets last week...
...daughter before handing her over to his son-in-law," says Shlomo Cherrick, another old friend of Applebaum's. The trendy Cafe Hillel was close by, and its food was good. Inside, the pair lined up at the takeout counter, which is where they were when the suicide bomber...