The New York Times runs a piece on U.S. efforts to have Europe list Hizbullah as a terrorist organization. According to the article, The Europeans are not solidly opposed to listing Hezbollah as a terrorist group, the [unnamed U.S. and European] officials said. The Netherlands, Italy and Poland support the Bush administration's view, several officials …
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Sheikh Obeid, Now Free, on Women Suicide Bombers
Yesterday, Sheikh Abdul Karim Obeid led the parade of freed Lebanese prisoners. Israel seized him in 1989 from the southern Lebanese village of Jibshit, where he was the local prayer leader. Israel hoped it might trade him for a missing airman. I wrote this about him in the New York Times, shortly after his abduction: …
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Will Germany Release an American-Killer?
In the next few days, Israel and Hizbullah are supposed to consummate their exchange of prisoners, bodies, and information. Germany has been the mediator in the deal. It wouldn't be the business of the United States, except now there is a report that the Germans have promised to release a brutal Hizbullah terrorist, who in …
Political Science Targets Suicide Terrorism. Bystanders: Take Cover!
Robert Pape has written an article explaining suicide bombing. Can the thesis be correct, if the data are corrupted?
Mixing signals on Hizbullah
Last week was not a good one for carefully formulated U.S. statements on Hizbullah. Two senior diplomats said things that shouldn't have been said, suggesting that the U.S. doesn't quite know where the Iranian-backed movement fits in the "war on terror." The first gaffe belonged to U.S. ambassador to Lebanon Vincent Battle. According to the …
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