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Israeli commando killed in Nablus raid By JOEL LEYDEN AND MARGOT DUDKEVITCH Staff-Sergeant Roi Oren, 20, from Moshav Udim near Netanya, was killed early Friday morning in a battle with Palestinian terrorists in a refugee camp near Nablus. Oren was laid to rest this afternoon at 15:30 in Udim's cemetery. Oren belonged to the IDF's elite naval commando unit Shayetet 13, which entered the Askar refugee camp east of Nablus on the West Bank at 4:30 A.M. to arrest wanted Hamas terrorists. Two top Hamas bomb makers were killed during the raid. The operation was directed at capturing senior Hamas...

Among the WahhabisHatred’s KingdomHow Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism by Dore Gold Regnery. 309 pp. $27.95Reviewed by Alex Alexiev AFTER A year and a half in which the war on terrorism consisted essentially of large tactical operations—liquidating the Taliban regime, destroying al Qaeda’s base in Afghanistan, rounding up Islamist agents around the world—the U.S. finally took its first step of truly strategic significance. Operation Iraqi Freedom was intended to deny to the Baghdad regime and its Islamist fellow-travelers the ability to develop and use weapons of mass destruction, thus removing one of the most urgent long-term threats to...