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Condoleezza Rice Date of birth: November 14, 1954 Hometown: Birmingham, Alabama The girl next door: “I always say to [the President], ‘This is what I think, but let me tell you what the others think.’ The key is to not take advantage of the fact that I live a few doors down from the Oval Office.” Where you’ve seen her: Lighting up the small screen and the press in her current role as President George W. Bush’s sassy national security adviser. Look for her soon, when she will be making her hotly anticipated debut before the 9/11 commission.

A huge Israeli flag was unfurled along part of the renovated and refurbished building, while the edge of the car park opposite remained lined with dried wreaths, flowers and hundreds of burned-out memorial candles. Inside, the place was packed with diners of all ages and the kitchen was a hive of activity as cooks and waiters struggled to cope with the incessant flow of orders. Maxim's restaurant, alongside the Delek gas station at the southern access to Haifa, was back in business. It reopened on Monday exactly two months and two days after the attack by a Palestinian woman suicide...

(IsraelNN.com) Um el-Fahm resident Jamal Mahadjne, 47, was indicted today in the Haifa District for transporting the female suicide bomber who perpetrated the Maxim Restaurant attack in Haifa on 4 October inside Green Line Israel. Mahadjne was a habitual violator, who regularly took a fee for driving PA residents across the Green Line illegally, taking advantage of his Israeli identity card to cross back and forth without difficulty. Several days before the attack, he allegedly drove the bomber, a Jenin resident, into Green Line Israel where she perpetrated the attack that claimed 21 lives and left over 65 injured. The...

Israel Defense Forces troops operating in the West Bank city of Jenin on Friday captured senior Islamic Jihad militant Amjad Abeidi, who planned the suicide bombing at a Haifa restaurant last month in which 21 people were killed. Abeidi is responsible for dispatching a number of suicide bombers to carry out attacks in Israel, including Hanadi Jaradat, who blew herself up in Haifa's Maxim restaurant. The soldiers located the complex in which Abeidi was hiding, and searched it. Several hours later they found a weapons stockpile hidden under one of the houses. After the soldiers threw a grenade into the...

Oct. 16, 2003 Poll: 75% of Palestinians support Haifa restaurant attack By LAMIA LAHOUD 75% of Palestinians support the suicide bombing of the Maxim restaurant in Haifa in which 23 people were killed. 78% of Palestinians believe the US roadmap for peace is dead, yet a vast majority ( 85%) want a mutual ceasefire, according to a new opinion poll released by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR) in Ramallah. If the two sides agree on a mutual cessation of violence, 59% (compared to 50% last June) would support taking measures by the PA to prevent attacks...

Oct. 15, 2003 21st victim of Haifa suicide attack laid to rest By JPOST.COM STAFF Haifa's Maxim restaurant Photo: AP After fighting for his life for 11 days, George Matar, 57, was laid to rest Thursday afternoon in Haifa's Christian cemetery. Matar succumbed to his injuries – sustained at the suicide attack on Maxim restaurant in Haifa – and died on Wednesday in the city's Rambam hospital, bringing the death toll of the attack to 21. The Matar family are the Arab co-owners of the Maxim restaurant, jointly run by Jews and Arabs. George, a Haifa resident, was an employee...

Efforts Continue to Save the Lives of Terror Victims 21:21 Oct 04, '03 / 8 Tishrei 5764 (IsraelNN.com) Five victims of today’s Haifa terror attack, including three children, remain in very serious condition. All five are undergoing emergency surgery in the Rambam Medical Center. Over 40 victims of the attack remain at Rambam and the Carmel and Bnei Tzion Hospitals.

Oct. 4, 2003 IDF retaliation restricted by Yom Kippur By ARIEH O'SULLIVAN The lights were burning late on the second floor of the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv Saturday night as IDF brass, security service heads and the Defense Minister weighed possible reactions to the Haifa suicide attack. Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz convened the meeting after IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Moshe Ya'alon held a previous assessment with top generals and prepared possible options for retaliation. The sense in the defense establishment was that no actions would be taken against Arafat and would focus on intensifying the crackdown on...

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the nation's largest retailer, said yesterday that it had halted sales of Maxim, Stuff and FHM, men's magazines that feature a mix of scantily clad starlets and bawdy humor but go to some lengths to avoid being labeled as pornography. The decision came after "listening to our customers and associates," Melissa Berryhill, a spokeswoman for Wal-Mart, said. "I know we've heard on at least one of those magazines, they weren't pleased with the offering." Maxim has been sold in Wal-Mart for the last three years, while FHM was added recently. The standards and general content of the...