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...Even if mediators find a way around conflicting demands over issues ranging from disarmament to the release of prisoners demanded by the militants, it could easily be undone by the familiar cycle of violence started by a single suicide bomber sent by a renegade cell of any of the radical factions, or by an Israeli assassination attempt on a terror suspect. Still, it marks a renewed recognition of an old truth: After 1,000 days of a bloody intifada that has claimed the lives of more than 2,400 Palestinians and 800 Israelis, the cease-fire - and the "hudna" - mark...
compatriot but rather an Israeli, Ludmilla Lekior, a victim of the Hamas suicide bomber who killed 17 in a bus attack in central Jerusalem last week. Lekior, who immigrated to Israel from Ukraine nine months ago and was studying Hebrew, was among the 60 wounded in the attack who were brought to Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital...
...died in my hands." ELIYAHU SHMUELI, a Jerusalem city employee, describing his vain attempt to rescue a burning woman from a bus obliterated by a Palestinian suicide bomber in Jerusalem; 17 people died...
...sources say, persuaded the Saudis to send him home via Paris--where police could detain him. "The Germans couldn't or wouldn't charge Ganczarski," says a French antiterrorist official. "The Americans wanted him out of commission and his terrorist links fully explored." German officials knew that the suicide bomber responsible for the April 11, 2002, explosion at a synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia--which killed 21 people--called Ganczarski shortly before launching his attack. They also knew that the Tunisian terrorist called al-Qaeda's operations chief, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who is now in U.S. custody, around the same time...
...kilograms were discovered, there was enough to kill scores if a bomb were set off in a confined, crowded space, a regional intelligence official says. Police also recovered 14 detonators and a volatile high explosive called pentaerythritol tetranitrate, or PENT, the prime component of the explosive in would-be bomber Richard Reid's sneakers. What worries terrorism experts is the possibility that a thwarted JI might turn to lone-wolf attacks like Reid's. "I don't think JI is capable of anything big right now," says Zachary Abuza, author of a forthcoming book on al-Qaeda in Southeast Asia...