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...gang that allegedly killed Ze'evi, from a hideout in the hostile Kalandia refugee camp. Another undercover team found a second member of the hit squad, Salah Alawi, hiding under a car outside his house on the outskirts of Jerusalem. And in the West Bank village of Doura, an undercover unit of the border police snatched Yusef Tabeishi, an Islamic jihad activist Israel says was involved in several terror attacks. Senior officers say they will be able to extract valuable intelligence by interrogating the three men. These are also the kinds of operations that usually don't rub the Bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel's Less Offensive Missions | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

...gang that killed Ze'evi, from a hideout in the hostile Kalandia refugee camp. Another undercover team found a second member of the hit squad, Salah Alawi, hiding under a car outside his house in Azzariyeh, on the edge of Jerusalem. And in the West Bank village of Doura, the "Yamas Ayosh" undercover unit of the Border Police snatched Yusef Tabeishi, an Islamic Jihad activist Israel says was involved in several terror attacks. In all three cases, senior officers say they'll be able to extract valuable intelligence under interrogation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel's Military Conundrum | 10/27/2001 | See Source »

...village, the Israelis coolly set up a roadblock on the coastal highway and then blew up a small factory suspected of supplying explosives to Palestinian terrorists. Three Syrians who ran the factory were killed in the blast. The other two commando contingents struck at the northeast industrial neighborhood of Doura, where they blasted a single-story machine shop believed to be used by terrorists. At Sidon, 25 miles to the south, they destroyed a small fedayeen garage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Terror to End Terror? | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

...Lebanon, which is officially half Christian and half Moslem, women press for reforms through nearly 100 women's clubs dominated by beloved old Ibtihaj Kha-doura, who in 1930 became the first Lebanese woman to rip off the veil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MIDDLE EAST: Daughters of the Prophet | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

...Doura, which is on the Euphrates, has been covered by the sand of the desert for more than a score of centuries, in collaboration with the French Academy and with the permission of the Syrian government, excavation work on the city has been going on intensively for the past brace of years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bulldog Will Show Antiquities From Syria During Commencement | 6/11/1930 | See Source »

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