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...This is the second clash in as many weeks between Arafat and militant Palestinian organizations. Two weeks ago his police killed three Islamist protestors in Gaza at a demonstration against the U.S. bombing of Afghanistan. Now they're rounding up PFLP members. But these are many of the same people alongside whom Arafat's security forces have fought over the past year. How is this affecting the cohesion of his administration...
...controls inside Britain . . . means people plotting terror will continue to regard the U.K. as a haven," Jacquard says. "People come and go as they please, to and from [terrorist] training camps or on missions." A French antiterrorist official is even more accusatory: "In the last half-decade, virtually all Islamist extremists from Europe have shared the same itinerary: radicalization in London mosques and exit from Britain to Afghan camps...
...least six people have been killed in violent anti-American protests in Pakistan, but these were predicted and have not assumed dimensions that would threaten the stability of General Musharraf's regime. The general has also moved preemptively, placing a number of key Islamist leaders under house arrests and purging Taliban sympathizers from the military's top brass; Yasser Arafat's police found themselves playing a role usually reserved for their Israeli counterparts, putting down an anti-American demonstration in Gaza and killing three Palestinians. Arafat appears to have gambled that the diplomatic gains from ingratiating himself with...
...Pakistan, with its military rule, mounting domestic Islamist challenge and long history of intimacy with the Taliban regime, faces the toughest challenge. The backlash there will mount rather than diminish as the bombing continues and refugees flood across from Afghanistan. And Pakistan will soon find itself scrambling to find a new proxy in Kabul to compete with the Russian-backed Northern Alliance for influence in a post-Taliban Afghanistan. General Musharraf's recent reshuffle of his generals suggests he's also on the lookout for any backlash from within the military. The U.S., too, will keep close watch, knowing that...
...That could happen. But many of the Islamists have said all along that they are not going to observe cease-fire. The military wing of Hamas does not accept the formula Arafat is offering, that there should be a cease fire because in return the Americans are going to help the Palestinians. As one Islamist said to me, "In such cases, if he wants us to stop, let's see what he has on the table. What kind of offers does he have? He has only promises, and these promises don't buy a cup of coffee...