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…ppen. They also realized that if we failed, the passengers trapped inside the plane would be at the mercy of terrorists armed with AK-47s and explosives. But I was confident that any apprehension would be overtaken by adrenalin when as the assault began. As we got closer, Shai A...

that made him the number-two man in the armed

with the need to fool armed terrorists on the

…out another round of bloodshed. Oslo Fatigue When asked by the PSPSR whether Mahmoud Abbas’s policy of peace talks or armed resistance by Hamas is the best way to achieve a Palestinian state, an alarming 60 percent of Palestinians surveyed threw in their lot with armed resistan...

…s, from his time training them a few years earlier. Even if we did run into a group of Amin’s troops, even if they were armed, even if they were pointing their guns at us, even if they shout at us to stop, they “wouldn’t dare open fire on a Mercedes.” I trusted his experience. I...

as it was in the OJ Simpson case. The only question is who committed it. (Remember the “one armed killer” in The Fugitive!)

…nce operations, this would be the first time we were taking on the persona of civilian engineers, with the need to fool armed terrorists on the lookout for any sign of danger or betrayal. And for the first time in any of our major operations, we would be operating in daytime. No...

…tanks and planes. Israeli soldiers and pilots were being held prisoner in Egypt and Syria. Arafat’s Fatah and the other armed Palestinian groups might not present a conventional threat. Yet while I’d been with my tank company in the Sinai, they were fighting a full-scale civil wa...

…he sat in the sanctuary of his safe house a few kilometers south of the Israeli border, surrounded by his five sons and armed disciples. He called on the new Egyptian government to repeal laws that prevent the Bedouins from owning land, abolish all absentia sentences against Bedo...

…d the free world is to help new democracies in the Middle East survive and prosper. Small Islamic groups, organized and armed with religious zeal, could hijack power from the moderates. This would lead to a disaster for the whole region. Therefore, it 1s imperative for the free w...

…nior Executive Service officer, or SES, which was the civilian equivalent in rank and pay to a flag officer in the U.S. armed forces. “I’m still amazed that © a twenty-eight-year-old thought he could get an SES position,” a © civilian contractor working for the NSA during the sa...

…fore becoming ramatkal, I'd filled dozens of pages on issues large and small I hoped to address as the commander of the armed forces. A lot of them dealt with what I sensed was an erosion of cohesiveness in the army, and, since ours was a citizen military, a fraying of the relati...

…earer the Mediterranean, in the western and central parts of the border area, it indeed covered territory controlled by armed PLO groups. But in the eastern sector, there were Syrian positions a mere 10 to 12 kilometers up from the border, well inside the “security zone”. Not muc...

and the support for SCAF is related to that.” SCAF is the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, Egypt’s ruling military council. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton underscored the shift in a speech last week that her aides later said was a deliberate warning to the military...

…he situation." In neighboring Syria, however, where Iranian-backed regime forces continue to suppress a Saudi-supported armed rebellion, Khashoggi expects very little to materialize from Saudi-Iranian talks. "I'm not optimistic," he told NOW. "The Saudis and Iranians are still fa...