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Mar. 11, 2003 IDF reinforcements to Hebron after wave of attacks By DAVID RUDGE The IDF is expected to boost forces in Hebron and change its operational deployment there after the latest attack on Monday night in which St.-Sgt. Tomer Ron was killed and five other soldiers wounded - one of them seriously. The death of Ron, 20, of Moshav Moledet, brought to 25 the number of soldiers and Jewish civilians killed in the area in the past four months - prompting the urgent need for new security measures in the ancient city and its environs. Ron, a member of...

Iran's judiciary chief, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi-Shahrudi, held talks with leaders of armed Palestinian groups in the Syrian capital of Damascus on Sunday, Palestinian officials said. "We are trying to draw up a joint stand to face up to the US-Israeli plans against the region and the Palestinian cause," the head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, Ahmed Jibril, told AFP news agency. He added that the talks with the Iranian official also dealt with "the resistance inside Palestine". Hashemi-Shahrudi likewise met with Abdullah Shallah, head of Islamic Jihad, Imad el-Alami of Hamas and officials of the...