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...after a week that witnessed the most brutal up-close combat conducted by the U.S. military since Somalia, victory over the insurgency in Iraq isn't necessarily any closer. Many fighters and the majority of the rebel leadership--including Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, the most wanted terrorist in Iraq--apparently slipped out of the city in the weeks leading up to the assault. A Pentagon official says that at most, 10% of the enemy in Iraq has been killed or captured in Fallujah. As the U.S. fights there, violence is rippling across the center and north of Iraq, engulfing...
...outside one of them. Can all that really be happening in the calm, tolerant, liberal Netherlands? The answer is yes. Minutes after the Nov. 2 slaying of firebrand filmmaker Theo van Gogh, who recently aired a controversial movie on Islam's alleged abuse of women, a Muslim with suspected terrorist ties was arrested for the murder, touching off a religious backlash that reached all the way to Parliament. As one politician went into hiding after being marked for death in a letter pinned to van Gogh's body with a knife, the right-wing coalition government proposed closing radical mosques...
Investigators say the murder suspect, a Dutch Moroccan named Mohammed Bouyeri, was a peripheral member of a radical Islamic group referred to as the Hofstad Network, which is linked to terrorist gangs in Spain and Belgium. A dozen suspected members have since been arrested in the Netherlands, where the death of van Gogh, who often slurred Muslims with unprintable epithets, has forced a tolerant country to rethink its freedoms. --By Andrea Gerlin. With reporting by Lauren Comiteau and Abi Daruvalla
...hostage takings and beheadings in Iraq, I find it disturbing for the media to depict these killers as "insurgents" or "resistance fighters." A fuss is made over every foreign civilian casualty in the green zone, the headquarters of the U.S. administration in Baghdad, while the Iraqi civilian casualties of terrorist acts get scant coverage. And how is the U.S. policy of winning the hearts and minds of Iraqis going to work in a terrorist haven like Fallujah, where many of the citizens are collaborating with the extremists? Any peaceful means of conflict settlement by Americans is viewed by these brutes...
...Arafat then? A terrorist? Certainly in the early years and arguably again toward the end. A freedom fighter? Undoubtedly. He lofted the cause of a small, disenfranchised and basically powerless people to the top of the world's agenda. A peacemaker? Many Israelis say that was just an act, but if it was, it was a convincing one, at least for a time. In the end, though, Arafat, for all his calculated obfuscations, proved all too human. It was vanity, selfishness and a failure of courage that ultimately prevented him from realizing his ambition of a state for his people...