In March 1997, FBI Director Louis Freeh got what he calls in his memoirs "the first truly big break in the case": the arrest in Canada of one of the Saudi Hezbollah members the Saudis accused of being the driver of the getaway car at Khobar Towers. Hani...
The Writing Is On the Settlement Walls
JERUSALEM -- A paralyzing equation has long bedeviled would-be Middle East peacemakers: either, go directly to negotiating the kernel issues of the Israel-Palestine conflict -- borders, security, refugees, Jerusalem -- and leave, in the context of a full peace, the...
Victim of al-Qaeda Torture Set Free from Guantánamo
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Hamas-Fatah Violence May Derail Reconciliation
RAMALLAH - Egyptian mediators have set July 7 as deadline for final Palestinian reconciliation talks in Cairo. The Egyptians say time is running out, and if there is no progress in July, they will no longer be prepared to arbitrate. Continued political detention and...
Iran: Harsh Crackdown Extends to Leading Opposition Figures
TEHRAN - Eleven days after Iran's disputed June 12 president election, the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appears determined to round up key members of the opposition, journalists, and human rights activists who could play a key role in rallying public...


