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"Mount Carmel forest fire," forest fires in Mt. Carmel - northern Israel, claimed 41 lives and a huge loss of property (consumming 4 million trees over an area of 3,400 hectares). Believed to be the work of 'Arab arson.' While enjoying aid from many countries, many Israeli Arabs expressed "satisfaction" online, much of the Arab Muslim world cheered to the disaster, Hezbollah rejoiced. Later on a Jihadi group calling itself "Mujahadeen of Palestine" claimed respnsiblity for the fire, whether they really perptertated it or was it an accident by Arab youths (as some officials claim), one thing remains abundantly clear,...

KurdishMedia World hails al-Zarqawi's deathNEWS.com.au, Australia - THE most-wanted man in the Middle East, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has been killed in a US air strike northeast of Baghdad, capping a massive three-year manhunt ... Al Qaeda chief Zarqawi killed in Iraq ABC Online Abu Musab al-Zarqawi killed in air raid National PostAl-Zarqawi: From Jordan streets to war symbol Ireland Online Reuters - National Post Scotsman World reacts to al-Zarqawi deathCNN - 53 minutes agoAl-Zarqawi is seen in an image from a video aired in April by the Al-Jazeera network. "Today, Zarqawi has been killed. Every time ... Zarqawi leaves gap...

Hamas operatives in the West Bank have experimented with adding toxic chemicals to their bombs, security sources told Haaretz Monday. The sources said the experiments have involved relatively simple chemicals, and as far as is known, the organization is not yet able to integrate such agents into its bombs effectively. However, they said, Hamas' West Bank cells include several skilled bombmakers who are investing great effort in trying to upgrade their weapons.

- Most Muslims have "theories" about 9/11 Islamists' massacre. - 99.99% of Muslims that "denounce" [if at all] Islamic terror massacres on non Muslims, imply the word "but". - Most Arabs are so racist, most Muslims are so intolerant, they just can't bring themselves to be grateful to the US for rescuing Iraqi Arab men, women & children from the butcher & torturer of Baghdad: Saddam Hussein. - There was not one shred of gratitude from any known Muslim leader or group for US & Europe's rescuing of Bosnian Muslims in the 1990's. But on the contrary! - There was...

By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Palestinian gunmen from President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party stormed election offices in Gaza on Tuesday, sparking a gunbattle with police in a flare-up of violence that could disrupt next month's parliamentary ballot.

Palestinian terrorists fired mortar shells at N'vei Dekalim today, causing no casualties. In the Shomron, Arabs attacked an Israeli bus this afternoon; no one was hurt. The attack took place near the community of Mevo Dotan, which is on the "wrong" side of the anti-terrorist fence. Moti Amir, the town's security officer, said that in light of the country's concern with the anti-terror fence, "we feel that we have been abandoned, as do all the Jews who are on the 'wrong' side." He noted that though some families have left Mevo Dotan in the past months - "four of our...

Jerusalem (jnewswire.com) - The international community worked itself into a state this week, enraged by Israel's decision to accelerate its war on Palestinian Arab terrorism in the Gaza Strip. After massing armor near southern Gaza at the weekend, Israel launched a major anti-terrorism operation aimed at erecting a barrier between the terror-spawning and arms-smuggling town of Rafiah, and the rest of the Strip. Having achieved separation from the outside world, Israel Defense Forces armor moved into Rafiah Tuesday to root out the infrastructure of death embedded there. Led by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the European Union, the world pounced...

w w w . h a a r e t z d a i l y . c o m Last update - 16:32 15/03/2004 Victims of Sunday's suicide attack By Haaretz Staff Gil Abutbul38-year-old Ashdod resident Gil Abutbul was married, a father of two. He was the goalie of the M.S. Ashdod veterans soccer team. His group was scheduled to play on Monday, a match that was cancelled due to the terror attack. Ophir Damari31-year-old Rehovot resident Ophir Damari was the best friend of Moshe Hendler, who was also killed in Sunday's suicide attack. Damari's sister, Meirav says her brother...

Columnist Kamel Abd Al-Rauf wrote in the government-backed Egyptian weekly Akhbar Al-Youm that the Jews will ultimately be destroyed by the Muslims. The 1917 Balfour Declaration, which set the stage for Jewish political sovereignty in the Land of Israel, Al-Rauf explained, has facilitated this by concentrating millions of Jews in one area. At the same time, Al-Rauf called the Land of Israel "the Land of the Jews" and the "Promised Land". Confused? In his article, Al-Rauf referred to the chapter of the Koran called "Al-Israa", which details much of the story of the Jews and their exodus from Egypt at...

Police and the Shin Bet recently arrested Muhammed Tushiya,19, from Kfar Yassin in the West Bank. Tushiya, an Islamic Jihad terrorist, was planning a terrorist attack in Afula but changed his target to a synagogue at the nearby settlement of Shaked in the northern West Bank. He told interrogators that the heavy police presence around Afula prevented him from carrying out an attack there. The terrorist was riding a dune buggy heading for Afula, loaded with 10kg of explosives when he spotted a heavy Israeli security presence. Tushiya told the Shin Bet after his capture that he changed his mind...

The Ofer Military Court on Tuesday convicted Amani Mona of Bir Naballah of voluntary manslaughter in the terrorist murder of a 16-year-old boy. The Palestinian woman lured Ashkelon teen Ofir Rahum to his death in Ramallah by offering to have sex with him during an Internet conversation. Mona, 24, will be sentenced at a later date. The Israel Police Computer Crimes Squad carried out forensics on Rahum's computer, reconstructed old files through data recovery, and helped track down Mona and pin her to the crime. Israeli security forces arrested Mona in early 2001 after Rahum's bullet-riddled body was found on...

When Tzippy Farkas, 25, of Melbourne, Australia, went out on Tuesday night with two friends, security was very much on her mind. "We had discussed it many times and what the odds were that something would happen," said Farkas from her hospital bed in the Bikur Holim Hospital, Jerusalem. At 10:15 p.m., together with fellow Australians Tova Ross, 24, and Rachelle Rostiker, 25, she headed for Rehov Emek Refaim, taking a taxi in order to avoid the buses. "We reckoned a bomb might happen on a bus, but not in a caf ," she said. The group decided on Caf...

(IsraelNN.com) Three IDF soldiers were injured earlier this evening when a bomb was detonated against their armored vehicle in the Kissufim area of Gaza. The soldiers sustained light injuries.

(IsraelNN.com) Security officials report there are 32 credible intelligence community warnings of planned terror attacks.

opinion Nazi Origins of Arab Terror Chuck Morse 05 March 2003 The agenda and political faith of Saddam Hussein, Yasir Arafat, bin Laden, Hamas, and the rest of the international Islamic terrorists can be traced back to World War II and two key figures, Adolf Hitler and Amin al-Husseini, known as the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. Much has been written about the Mufti, all well documented, including chapters by such prominent authors as Connor Cruise O´Brien, former Irish Ambassador to the U.N. Mountains of documented evidence is out there and available to anyone who cares to look. The Nuremberg and...

Israelis and Africans share a painful bond Ed Morgan and Henry Ojambo National Post Friday, November 29, 2002 ADVERTISEMENT Yesterday's inferno at the Paradise Hotel in Mombasa, Kenya may have incinerated a resort and destroyed more than a dozen innocent lives, but it may yet represent the fire that forges a political relationship that has been simmering on low heat. Africans and Israelis now share more than the experience of violent Middle Eastern politics; they have together suffered terrorism born of racial and ethnic hate. For the second time in the past several years, Kenyans have been killed in the...

Protocols of Elder Named Gore Vidal: Wacko 9/11 Piece by Ron Rosenbaum Gore Vidal once tried to get me to print an alleged secret—a very big secret—about Richard Nixon’s penis. About what has come to be called, in post-Clintonian euphemistic legalese, its "distinguishing characteristic." I thought about this episode when I was reading what might be called "The Protocols of an Elder Called Gore," Mr. Vidal’s attempt to prove—well, insinuate in a Nixonian way—that a secret cabal (the Bush/oil "junta") instigated the 9/11 mass murders in order to increase their profit margins. The Vidal screed, a 7,000-word mega-ultra-totalizing post-9/11 conspiracy...

Israel Keeps Us Safe; We Keep It On the Verge of Extinction Steven Zak 01 November 2002 Email this story Print this story As Israel´s self-proclaimed protector, we in the United States get testy when our little protege misbehaves. "Israel could have no better or stronger friend than the United States," Ari Fleischer scolded last year, after Ariel Sharon failed to express sufficient gratitude over US pressure to go easy on genocidal lunatics. More recently, we angrily pressed the Israelis to allow 20 child killers, holed up with Yasser Arafat, to escape to murder another day. In truth, Israel is...

Dark Thoughts On A Nameless War Jonathan Mark 08 October 2002 Email this story Print this story This past week Israel entered its third year of a war with no name, with nary an ally, and with no objective more glorious than a lull. It´s been a war plagued by indecision and misdirection. The enemy´s leader is harassed but not erased. The country is safe for tourism but the danger is compared to the 1930s. Israel is said to be winning but has surrendered the messianic dreams and borders that thrilled us in 1967. This is a war in which...

On Sin, Syndromes and Self-Blame Frimet Roth 27 September 2002 Email this story Print this story Alarming illnesses are in the news these days. West Nile Virus has returned for the third consecutive summer and the threat of smallpox looms larger as the prospect of war with Iraq grows imminent. But there is another insidious ailment that concerns me even more. Many Israelis are already afflicted and have been wantonly spreading it far and wide. I’m referring to the Stockholm Syndrome, first recognized 29 years ago. In August 1973, two ex-convicts, armed with sub-machine guns, attacked a bank and held...