The Times\’ editors no doubt also took into account the fact that reports on financial tracking had appeared numerous times before, beginning with the president\’s 2001 announcement that his administration would do everything in its power to disrupt the source of terrorist funding.
Armed gunmen roamed freely in U.N. refugee camps. They stockpiled weapons, recruited refugees and launched cross-border attacks. In response, opposing forces attacked the camps, aiming for the gunmen — but sometimes cutting down civilians in the process.
You want to see a scary movie? Not creepy, jump-out-of-your-seat scary like \”Saw\” or \”Final Destination\” but melt-your-face, make-you-almost-cry scary? Then wait until Court TV screens, \”On Native Soil.\”
An unscientific, random sample of moviegoers who turned out for the new Steven Spielberg\’s film, \”Munich,\” overwhelmingly liked what they saw. All of these patrons saw the film at the ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood.
In recent days, several pundits have criticized \”Munich,\” the new film by director Steven Spielberg and screenwriter Tony Kushner, for drawing a \”moral equivalency between the Israeli assassins and their targets — both explicitly … and implicitly.\” Furthermore, they argue that it has inaccurately portrayed the Israeli avengers as morally conflicted about their mission to eliminate the perpetrators of the Munich massacre.
For me, the most telling moment in Steven Spielberg\’s \”Munich\” was the final scene, when the young, distraught Mossad team leader, Avner, takes a walk along the East River with his Israeli case officer, Ephraim, the man who supervised his mission.
The target list of an alleged cell of homegrown terrorists included two synagogues located in the Pico-Robertson corridor, The Journal has learned.\n\nThe target information emerged as a federal grand jury issued four indictments last week in the ongoing probe. It was confirmed by a source close to the investigation, although police have not specifically identified the shuls. There is no indication that any Jewish house of worship is in particular danger at the moment, and authorities are working with Jewish leaders regarding ways to enhance security precautions leading up to this month\’s high holiday services.
Yaffa Elharar, from Afula in northern Israel, has spent days outside a courtroom in the summer heat of Tampa, Fla., holding a photo of an attractive teenage girl and a sign proclaiming \”The Blood of Our Children Calls for Justice.\”\n\nElharar is in the United States as a possible witness in the ongoing trial of Sami Al-Arian, accused of heading a Florida support group for Palestinian terrorists.
With the planned Israeli withdrawal from Gaza less than three weeks away, right-wing leaders say they haven\’t yet given up hope of preventing it.
One of the terrorists in the July 7 London transit-system bombings reportedly knew one of the bombers in a 2003 Tel Aviv terrorist attack.
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