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...Israel has long been the main target of Islamic terrorists, but it became clear on Sept. 11, 2001, that every Western country is threatened. The present war in the Middle East is actually a war against international terrorism and the Iranian regime, which is a threat to all of the West. One day the world will recognize the importance of that fight and Israel's essential contribution. Aurelie Simonet Geneva...
...main problem on the ground - so-called runway incursions (where planes come too close together) have remained troublesome. According to the FAA, in 2005, there were a total of 327 runway incursions. Twenty-nine of those were very significant or serious, which is less than 10% of the total. In terms of error types, there were 169 pilot deviations, 105 operational errors/deviations by controllers, and 53 vehicle/pedestrian deviations. While pilot deviations are the most common type of runway incursion, they accounted for only 31% of serious incursions in the past fiscal year...
...across from the Israeli Prime Minister's Jerusalem office, a squad of angry army reservists and their families have pitched a cluster of igloo tents, and it looks as if they will be staying for a while. They've connected a refrigerator and a TV set to the electricity main, and, says an infantry reservist, they will camp out in Olmert's rose garden until "this loser, the Prime Minister, goes home...
...What I was seeing was the quality of life of our city destroyed, and a main reason was illegal immigration" said the mayor, who last month pushed through the city council what may be the most restrictive immigration-related local ordinance in the country. "It was draining the resources, the limited resources, to the point where I can no longer provide the public service that the legal, hardworking, tax-paying citizens should be getting... I certainly can't tell these people here that the federal government is working on it. They're expecting me to do something - I'm going...
...peacekeepers to evacuate a group of foreign diplomats who had arrived in Bemba's compound for a meeting and found themselves pinned down by artillery fire. On Tuesday morning, according to Reuters, automatic weapons fire ripped through the city and at least two government tanks headed towards the main area of fighting. The United Nations says it is flying in 400 extra Dutch and German peacekeepers on standby in nearby Gabon. They will join the 17,000 U.N. peacekeeping troops dotted around the vast central African nation. Diplomats from the U.N., South Africa and elsewhere are now scrambling...