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SNIPPET: “Security forces say that while terror groups were only successful in carrying out one suicide bombing in 2007, they were able to fire over 1,200 Qassam rockets at Israeli targets. Gaza become the focal point of Palestinian terror this year, but organizations there are working tirelessly to aid their counterparts in the West Bank”

Efrat Weiss
Published: 01.01.08, 01:36 / Israel News

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http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080103/FOREIGN/348873531/1003

“Terrorist killings plunged in ‘07”
by Joshua Mitnick
January 3, 2008

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “TEL AVIV — Israelis had their safest year in 2007 from terrorist attacks since the start of the Palestinian uprising, with 13 killed and one suicide bombing, according to the Israeli Shin Bet security agency.”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The Israeli fatality numbers — almost negligible relative to the 426 persons who died at the peak of the attacks in 2002 — suggest that the seven-year militant uprising has lost considerable steam and that the Israeli barrier sealing off parts of the West Bank is working as planned.”

https://www.osac.gov/Reports/report.cfm?contentID=77971

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1962607/posts

Finger-Pointing Continues Over Missing Foreign Workers at Cinram (100 Nepal workers missing in AL)
WAAY ^ | Jan 31, 2008 | Mike Brown, AP
Posted on 01/31/2008 8:19:35 AM PST by RDTF

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAAY) — The Department of Homeland Security is looking for more than 100 workers from Huntsville’s Cinram plant who have turned up missing. The group of workers from Nepal simply disappeared without any warning, creating a potential security risk.

Before leaving, some of the Nepalese allegedly stole furniture and television sets from their furnished apartments. Cinram spokeswoman Lyne Fisher says the missing workers do not pose a security threat.

“Some of them may have wanted to stop in some of the major attractions you’d want to see if you were visiting the U.S., for example, New York City or something like that.”

The Nepalese workers were recruited by officials at Blair staffing agency. A Blair spokesperson referred us to the company president who told us he wasn’t ready to talk on camera.

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“The onus is on the individuals themselves,” Fisher said. “They work with Homeland Security, their local government, and with these staffing agencies. All those folks work together with the individual to ensure they return home.”

Joan Harris has practiced immigration law for years, and also said the responsibility lies squarely on the shoulders of those workers.

“If they’re going to, for instance, take off one day after they get off work, the employer would have no way knowing this,” Harris said. “So how can they be held responsible for this

Harris said if the missing workers are located elsewhere in the U.S., they would be penalized if they violated the terms of their visas. About 240 workers from Nepal came to Huntsville on the H2B visa program. That system allows foreign workers to stay in the country as long they remain employed at the business that brought them to the U.S.

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