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Spam fighting ideas, anyone?
Metafilter has a post on a PHP routine that generates 20 or so random "e-mail addresses" for a site, so they can be hoovered up by spambots and theoretically screw up somebody's spam run.
First read through, I thought, "Good idea! I'll do the same thing in ASP, and that'll show 'em, by golly." But since spammers often pirate legit e-mail addresses for their "from" lines, I don't suppose it would really do that much to the spammers, only to the sap whose address was nicked. (My Hotmail address has spammed at least three times since I got it, five or six years ago, judging from flurries of bounces I've gotten. On another occasion, my ISP cut me off because my server had spewed forth thousands of e-mails hawking Herbal Viagra without telling me...) And since they sell millions of addresses at a time to each other, I don't suppose twenty bounces from Rantburg's contribution would even be noticeable.

At this point, I've simply set my Outlook to take all messages originating with Yahoo, Hotmail, MSN, AOL, Earthlink, Lycos, and a few others, and dump them into my junk mail folder, to be sorted through at liesure, if any. That reduces the junk I see in my inbox to manageable proportions, and the real people at Yahoo, Hotmail, etc. — I think there are nine of them, by my count — can be handled by the exceptions function. If anyone has any better ideas for dealing with this stuff, I'd sure like to hear them...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/26/2002 11:49 am || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yeah, I've had someone use my email address/name to spam people with. Very very annoying.

Personally, I fiter stuff by subject in Outlook. If a message contains a word like "Printer Ink" or "Viagra" or anything involving animals & sex, it gets deleted off the server.

Sure, there's a chance someone I know will send me a email with a subject like that, but pretty unlikely (and I likely wouldn't want to read it to begin with).
Posted by: Jeremy || 08/26/2002 12:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Remind me not to mail you from my yahoo address! Seriously, spam is a major annoyance, but I've got some pretty good filters running on my site address. I've also got a 'whitelist' of addresses that always get through, which helps with the occasional badly-titled e-mail.
Posted by: Kathy K || 08/26/2002 14:16 Comments || Top||

#3  I use MailWasher and I find it allows me to bounce the spam back right from the server. It seems to work great and its free, or you can pay $20.00 and get life-time upgrade. I think it is well worth the $20 bucks.

The address is
http://www.mailwasher.net/

I think it will do the job you want.

Jack
Posted by: Jack Bross || 08/26/2002 14:59 Comments || Top||

#4  I like Jack Bross's suggestion - I've been getting lots of spam from Nigerian scam artists lately, and I just pasted a standard rejection header back at them, though they might be smart enough to figure it's from me, not my provider.

Not that Nigerians sam at all - just lots of fake $100 bills I saw myself at the World Cup at foxboro, MA back in 1994. Nothing to see here.
Posted by: Raj || 08/26/2002 20:54 Comments || Top||

#5  I've got a suggestion, Fred. Try this Outlook plug-in!
Posted by: Joe Katzman || 08/26/2002 23:25 Comments || Top||

#6  I’ using a plug-in for Outlook Spam Bully, it's a Bayesian spam filter and it works almost perfect for me.
The way SpamBully for OE works is that it views your current email folders' contents and learns from that to help distinguish between spam and regular emails.
Also it has a lot of great features such as Friends/Spammers lists, email blocking by country/language, Allow/Block words and phrases, attachment blocking…
Posted by: Rick Johns || 06/25/2004 7:37 Comments || Top||


''The synergy of American military power''
Meryl Yourish extracts this bit from a New York Times piece on Iraq:
"My assessment is that if you put enough pressure on them, they will come apart and won't fight," General McCaffrey said in an interview. "The notion that they will retreat into the built-up areas and turn them into a kind of Stalingrad is laughable."

"I don't think they can handle the synergy of American military power, the violence and speed," he said. "A war could entail a few thousand U.S. casualties. But my honest judgment is that if we are serious about this, it would take 90 days to build up our forces and 21 days for the campaign. I think they will unravel."
McCaffrey should know, since he was one of those who caused them to fall apart the last time. This is what I was referring to, with phrasing not as elegant, in yesterdays comments on the subject.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/26/2002 02:07 pm || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The world seems to have forgotten what happens when Amercans get really mad. The Japanese were the last combatants to make Americans really mad. The result was 7,000,000 dead Japanese.
Posted by: Anonymous || 08/26/2002 17:33 Comments || Top||

#2  During last October, diplomatic efforts by the afghani taliban to find an intermediary party to assist with their attempts to put a stop to American demands, landed on deaf ears at the Vietnamese Ambassador to the UN, Quoted by the BBC on October 10th, "Even we were not stupid enough to strike at the american people"

For those that would piss and moan about "How long will we have to be in Iraq if we go in?" My answer is if it took 60 years to civilize the Germans and Japanese and the result is that both places are better than we found them, then perhaps atleast 60 years of occupying their country, marrying their daughters, developing their political parties to meet our needs and teaching them how to use indoor plumbing, would be just about right.

and perhaps, serve them right as well.
Posted by: Frank Martin || 08/26/2002 21:40 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Chemicals discovered in Kabul house
Police discovered small quantities of 16 different chemicals in sealed containers in a house leased to the Saudi Arabian charity al Wafa until the overthrow of the Taleban regime last year. The chemicals have not yet been identified. Afghanistan's national directorate of security is investigating. Documents were seized along with the chemicals, and Radio Kabul reported that the chemicals and documents were found with a quantity of explosives. Al Wafa is one of the organisations whose assets have been frozen in the United States amid suspicions that it might be giving support to Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network.
More Soddy NGO involvement. This sort of thing is turning into a dog-bites-man story...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/26/2002 10:18 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Axis of Evil
Dear Leader back home...
General Secretary Kim Jong Il returned home on August 24 after his successful visit to the far eastern region of the Russian Federation. He conducted energetic external activities, making a long journey covering more than 2,800 km. He had a historic meeting with Russian President V. V. Putin, thus further deepening the friendly relations and strengthening the ties of DPRK-Russia friendship. This recorded a new chapter in the history of bilateral relations. Kim Jong Il's historic visit to the Far Eastern region marked another landmark event which provided a new turn in boosting the traditional DPRK-Russia friendship.
So glad he made it back home. Y'know, us Forces of Progressivism were really worried somebody might shoot down his train or something...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/26/2002 10:18 am || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I was hoping he'd have one of those ill-fated Soddy princes aboard...they seem to be dropping like flies, especially the worse Fahd gets
Posted by: Fgaines || 08/26/2002 16:10 Comments || Top||


Iranian Majlis rep for Jews kisses Khamenei's hand...
The Majlis deputy representing the Iranian Jewish population, Mauris Mo'tamed, here on Sunday expressed his appreciation of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, for his efforts to promote the rights of the Iranian Jewish minority, adding that he hoped that similar measures would be adopted in the future for cases such as "qesas" (law of retaliation), legal testimony, and inheritance laws. Speaking during the Majlis pre-debate speeches, Mo'tamed thanked the Leader for seeing to it that Iran's law was changed so that now an equal amount of blood money must be paid for the death of Jews and Muslims.
Wasn't that big-hearted of them?
He also praised Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Shahroudi for his efforts to remove the problems and obstacles hindering the development of the law. The deputy also thanked the administration of President Mohammad Khatami for expediting the procedures in drawing up the relevant bill and quickly sending it to the Majlis, where the bill was passed. Mo'tamed also asked the Leader to pardon the Jewish prisoners in the southern city of Shiraz on the eve of the upcoming Jewish holiday.
And to stop coming by every Saturday evening and beating him, no doubt. Is it just me, or is there something revolting about having a system of laws that don't apply the same to everyone?
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/26/2002 10:18 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Seven N.K. Defectors Caught by Chinese Police
Seven North Korean defectors were caught by Chinese police Monday afternoon trying to enter the Chinese Foreign Ministry to submit applications seeking refugee status. The group of five males and two females, which includes four members of one family, were apprehended at 2 p.m. in front of the Chinese Foreign Ministry. The incident marks the first time North Korean defectors have tried to gain refugee status from the Chinese government.
The Chinese arrested them going into their own (Chinese) foreign ministry? Hokay...

"Yes, Sonny. Back in my day, there used to be a country called North Korea. Used to frighten lotsa people, it did. But then everybody left. Only thing left there now is a few outdoor toilets and other monuments to socialism..."
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/26/2002 10:18 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Iran crown prince plots return from D.C. suburbs
Seattle Times, among others, carries an AP piece by Ron Kampeas on Reza Pahlavi's involvement in the Iranian insurrection.
It's not particularly condemnatory, but it'll provide some fodder for the Iranians' counterpropaganda. And the Indymedia set will probably find something to holler about...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/26/2002 10:18 am || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Can't write about Iranian unrest unless they get a glamor angle, eh? I'm actually in favor of what Pahlavi is doing. Not in favor of him being in power over there, just in support him giving them someone to rally around. And if they listen to Glenn, me and a few others -- any constitutional monarchy will have a figurehead atop it, rather than a power. ;)
Posted by: Kathy K || 08/26/2002 14:27 Comments || Top||


Syria, Soddies warn against war with Iraq...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah warned that launching war on Iraq would destabilise the region and lead to a human tragedy.
"Human tragedy" in this case being 3000 or so princes without jobs...
The warning came in talks held in the Saudi Red Sea city of Jeddah during a brief visit by President Assad to the kingdom. Assad and Prince Abdullah reviewed "developments in the (Gulf) region which may lead to undesirable results, destabilise peace and security in the region and the world and produce human tragedies," SPA said, in reference to US threats to wage war on Iraq.
Any change at all to the status quo seems likely to "destabilize the entire region." I think that's really neat: anything we do has the capability of causing everything to collapse. But if things are that shaky, why do they call it "stability"?
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/26/2002 11:18 am || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


Any US attack against Iraq bound to fail: Aziz
Any US military action against Iraq is doomed to failure because the embattled population is immune to such aggressions, Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz warned.
That doesn't make any sense. I'm sorry, but the coherence quotient is down somewhere in the subzero area...
"Any adventure or attacks the US administration might undertake against Iraq will be completely doomed to failure," Aziz said in talks in Baghdad with former US attorney general Ramsey Clark.
Because...? Let's have it...
"The resistance of the Iraqi people is the sort to doom all plans drawn up by imperialism to failure," Aziz said Monday.
So there we have it, and it still makes no sense. But since he was talking to Ramsey Clark, I guess it doesn't have to make any sense...
He warned that George W. Bush's administration "will not achieve its aggressive objectives because it will find (in Iraq) a warrior people headed by a fighting commander."
Just like last time...
Clark, who visits Iraq regularly, confirmed his "support to the fight of the Iraqi people to put an end to the unjust embargo (imposed on Baghdad for invading Kwuait in 1990) and their resistance to (US) threats."
Ramsey just can't stay away. Deep down, he wishes he could be a dictator, too...
"Protests are organised in the United States and elsewhere in the world to oppose Washington's desire to launch an offensive against Iraq," Clark said, quoted by the official INA news agency. "Public opinion in America and the world is against US plans of attack."
Ummm... I think most public opinion in the U.S. is wondering why the hell we haven't gotten it over with yet. But Ramsey'll keep working on it, and maybe he can get some more goobers out there hollering "No blood for oil!"
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/26/2002 11:24 am || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I was wondering when the Rammer would pop up. Nice that he can find something to do with his time. People wonder about Ashcroft; it still boggles my mind that the Rammer used to be AG.
Posted by: Chris || 08/26/2002 14:51 Comments || Top||

#2  God, please have a JDAM or two with Aziz's name on it! In my wildest dream I have Aziz and Ramsey in the same room doing the "HateAmerika" polka together when an unfortunate targetting success strikes
Posted by: Fgaines || 08/26/2002 15:56 Comments || Top||

#3  It always seemed suspicious to me that lefty conspiracy theories implicate practically everyone then living on Earth as a suspect in the Martin Luther King assassination; except their idiotarian ally, Ramsey Clark, who was Attorney General of the United States at the time and, therefore, J. Edgar Hoover's boss. During World War 2, Clark's father, future Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark, was the Justice Department official in charge of rounding up Japanese-Americans on the west coast. I have always wondered what effect this had on then-15-year-old Ramsey, if any.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy || 08/27/2002 2:51 Comments || Top||


Ramadhan condemns mercenary groups’ practices northern Iraq
Vice-President Taha Yassin Ramadhan said that our Kurdish people are now more aware of the reality of the suspicious practices conducted by some mercenary groups in the north targeting unity and sovereignty of Iraq. This has come during a meeting with Secretary General of Kurdistan Democratic Party Ahmed Mohamed Saed al Atroushi, Secretary General of Democratic Revolutionary Party Ibrahim Tahir Salam and members of Polit-bureau and Central Committees of the two parties. Mr. Ramadhan said that the offensive practices conducted by some mercenary groups in the north of Iraq reflect their treachery against Iraqi people, and their subjection to colonialist powers represented by the Zionism and U.S.
"So you guys better toe the line or you're gonna get some o' this, see?"
He said “we are not worried about our Kurdish people and we are sure of their stances rallying around President Saddam Hussein’s leadership to defend Iraq’s unity.”
"I mean, look at all he's done for them..."
He stressed that Iraqis would defeat adversaries and achieve triumph and foil all the US-Zionist schemes.
"We ain't too sure how we're gonna do it, but we will. Just like we did last time..."
The Vice-President referred to the worldwide rejection against US aggressive threats on Iraq which obviously reflect Iraq’s attitude and success in unveiling the US aims and its policy which aims to dominate the entire world.
"Long as we can keep those Euros fired up against the Merkins, I guess we're okay..."
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/26/2002 05:48 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


German official visits Iraqi embassy
Head of the Middle East Office of German Foreign Ministry Mr. Blaz visited Friday Iraqi embassy in Berlin. He presented a bouquet to members in the embassy, congratulating them for their safety and the failure of the cowardly act committed by bunch of American-Zionist intelligence agents who targeted the Iraqi embassy in Berlin last Tuesday.
Ha! American-Zionist intellegence agents! I knew it was them all along!
For his part, the Iraqi Charge d’ Affaires in Berlin said that the terrorist agents were targeting traditions of the friendly German people and were aiming to harm them and their government since the German parties and politicians as well as German Foreign Minister rejected American threats against Iraq. He told INA in a phone call that the German authorities are still in contact with the Iraqi embassy, and the parliament in Berlin, Protocol Office in the Foreign Ministry and German policemen condemned such cowardly act.
Pretty embarrassing, wasn't it?
The Iraqi Charge d’ Affaires in Berlin praised the high morale of the Arab diplomatic Offices in Berlin.
"I mean, you guys wouldn't believe the number of blondes here! And hooters? Whoo-hoo!"
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/26/2002 05:54 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Palestinian wounded leave Baghdad for home
A New batch of Palestinian Intifada wounded left on Sunday from Saddam Medical Center for their home after a completed cure to continue struggle against the Zionist entity. Head of special Nurse House hospital Dr. Abdul-Aziz Abdul-Hmeed said Iraqi specialized medical teams followed up treating the heroic wounded day and night in order to remedy and to continue their struggle against Zionist to regain trights in establishing the independent state and its capital Al-Quds [Jerusalem]. He explained that most of the injuries were in the head and other parts of their bodies,
... Where else? Other people's bodies? ...
besides, they were serious and Iraqi doctors exerted double efforts to carry on surgeries that led to cure the wounded. The wounded expressed appreciation to national stances President Saddam Hussein has made to support the uprising in Palestine. General-Director of Saddam Center Directorate Dr. Nabil Al-Zzawi was in farewell the wounded.
"G'bye boys! Come back sooooon!"
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/26/2002 06:11 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Caucasus
Russers mull response to U.S. rebuke...
Russia weighed its response on Sunday to a sharp U.S. rebuke for alleged indiscriminate bombing in northern Georgia, a move Washington said could fuel tensions in the turbulent Caucasus region. Georgia said one man was killed and seven people wounded in Friday's attack, which White House Spokesman Ari Fleischer said had been verified by monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. "The United States regrets this loss of life and deplores the violation of Georgia's sovereignty," Fleischer said on Saturday.
Doesn't sound that "severe" to me, but I'm no diplomat, so I have a tin ear for these things...
However, he quickly stressed his statement did not signal any deterioration in U.S.-Russian relations.
Wouldn't expect it to...
Such official public upbraidings have become comparatively rare as Russian-U.S. ties blossomed following Moscow's strong support for Washington's war on terrorism. The Russian military again denied on Sunday its aircraft had bombed the zone. Defense Ministry chief spokesman Colonel Nikolai Deryabin told Interfax news agency that reports to the contrary "can only cause surprise."
Sounds like it mighta been a mistake on their part. Or the target was one that really needed bombed, so they intentionally applied a "generous" reading of the map.
A duty spokesman told Reuters that senior officials at the Foreign Ministry was considering its response to the criticism.
My advice would be to ignore it and to continue operations against the Bad Guys in Chechnya. It's in the same category as when we holler at Israel when they goof up...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/26/2002 10:18 am || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


East/Subsaharan Africa
Sudan sez they have to carry out barbaric sentences 'cuz the Koran sez so...
Sudan has rejected pleas to overturn death sentences on 88 people convicted of involvement in a bloody tribal clash despite pleas from rights group Amnesty International. The clash between the al-Muaalia and Reizagat tribes in May left more than 50 dead in western Sudan. A special court heard the case and in July sentenced 88 people to die by hanging or crucifixion.
Ofergawdsake!
Sudanese Justice Minister Ali Mohamed Osman Yassin said the government, which imposes Islamic sharia law, would not overturn the sentences because the death penalty was sanctioned by the Koran, the Muslim holy book. "It is part of our beliefs. Issues where there is a definitive text we have no choice but to abide by them," Yassin was quoted as saying by the daily al-Rai al-Aam.
"It definitively sez, right there in the Koran, someplace or other, that we have to be ignorant and barbaric. We'd like to be civilized, but we have no choice..."
In a statement on its Web site, Amnesty said the convicts had not received proper representation and that two of them were under the age of 18. It said the convicts had two more appeals.
Meanwhile, they're setting up the crosses and the headsman's sharpening his scimitar...
The tribal clash in the western state of Southern Darfur broke out after two al-Muaalia tribesmen killed a member of the Reizagat tribe in an argument at a market place.
It's that "religion of peace" thing...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/26/2002 10:17 am || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This is actually a major deal. No, not the fact that 88 poor slobs in the Sudan will die unjustly -- that's a near daily occurence. What's big is that Amnesty International is actually criticizing a Muslim country!

Any chance Amnesty could take a peek at, well, the mother just axed by some Paleo goons for being a suspected collaborator? Especially since the "evidence" was collected by the torture of her son, and turned out to be unfounded?

No, of course not. And Mary Robinson hasn't said a word, either.

Regards,
Posted by: Steve White || 08/26/2002 15:14 Comments || Top||

#2  50 dead... sounds like many of the people facing the death penalty did some thngs that might get them in a lot of trouble here too. Crucifixtion is way over the top, but frankly if 50 people were left dead dead in my home town, I'd be just fine with seeing a few people swaying at the end of a rope for it. The methods are crude, and the legal system is crappy, and it has ever been thus. I hope the appeals process gives those people decent representation, and a number of them get reduced sentences. That said, executions will certainly make people think twice about deadly escalation of inter-tribal feuds.

Those who read Greek history might recall a guy named Draco, who dealt with a lawless situation in a rather similar way. To this day, people still argue whether he was over the top or the guy who laid the foundations of law and order that allowed a greater civilization to emerge.

Steve, your comments re: Amnesty and Mrs. Robinson were bang-on. Except that I think the final number will be lower than 88, and I think some of them probably deserve to die. Hopefully, the final number and the deserving number will come a little bit closer together with international attention on the case.
Posted by: Joe || 08/27/2002 7:07 Comments || Top||


Europe
ETA sends death threat via boy of 2
Basque militants passed on a death threat to a politician by slipping a note into the pocket of her two-year-old son, newspapers reported yesterday. Idoia Correa, a councillor for the Socialist Party in the town of Muskiz near Bilbao, found the note on Thursday when she changed her son's pants after he went to a park with his grandfather, El Pais and El Mundo said. Officials of the Interior Ministry, which is responsible for state security, were not available for comment yesterday, nor was Correa.
How very heroic... It's not a religion, it's a mindset...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/26/2002 01:35 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Middle East
Jenin Hamas big shots nabbed...
The Israeli army stormed the northern West Bank town of Jenin, capturing two Hamas leaders, as violence flared across the Palestinian territories. In the Jenin refugee camp, elite Israeli units nabbed Hamas's top political chief in the area, Jamal Abu al-Hayja, as well as another senior official of the Islamic militant group, Islam Jarrar. At least two other people were rounded up in the operation, as clashes rocked the densely-populated area. An army spokesman said an Israeli officer was moderately injured when Palestinian gunmen opened fire during the Jenin operation. The army had arrested Hamas's military chief for the region, Mazen Fukha, near Jenin on August 5, a day after a Hamas suicide bomber killed nine people in a bus blast in northern Israel. Abu al-Hayja is suspected by Israel of being behind the August 9, 2001 suicide bombing of the Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem.
Gotta keep nabbing the tops until the Paleos catch on and stop stepping forward to fill their shoes. That implies they recognize cause and effect, though — military leader of Hamas -> jug time or a bullet — which means it's gonna take an awful long time...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/26/2002 11:00 am || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Al-Aqsa big shot's house in Tulkarem is no more...
In a pre-dawn raid in the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, the army blew up the house of a militant from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. The demolition of Mansour Sharem's house also damaged several neighbouring buildings, Palestinian witnesses added.
Oh dear. Tusk tusk.
An army spokesman confirmed the operation, saying Sharem was a bodyguard for the Martyr's former local commander Raed al-Karmi, who was assassinated in an Israeli operation in January.
So now when he goes home at night after a hard day's bodyguarding he can sleep under a bush. Tough.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/26/2002 11:03 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


PFLP chief on a hunger strike...
The jailed head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) Ahmed Saadat has launched a 72-hour hunger strike to protest his detention in a Palestinian prison under international supervision, a Palestinian rights organization told AFP.
Boy, oboy. I went to the Chinese restaurant down the street for lunch: fried rice, General Tso's chicken, pork with mushrooms... Gotta stay away from those buffet tables. I'm so full, I never want to eat again. Sure was tasty, though...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/26/2002 11:09 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Saeb calls for outside observers...
Top Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat called for international observers to monitor both sides of the joint security plan for a phased Israeli withdrawal in exchange for a Palestinian crackdown on militants. "I call for international observers to overlook the Israeli withdrawal from reoccupied Palestinian areas and guarantee the Palestinian Authority will assume its responsibilities in all fields," Erakat told AFP on Monday.
They keep trying to get outsiders involved in this hoe-down, don't they?
The two sides last week agreed on a plan for a gradual withdrawal from areas reoccupied since the beginning of the intifada 23 months ago, in exchange for Palestinian efforts to rein in militants there. The army pulled out of the southern West Bank town of Bethlehem but has since frozen plans to extend its withdrawal to other towns, prompting the Palestinians to accuse Israel of backing out of the deal.
'Course that was after the Paleos refused to lift a finger to control the hard boys, which was supposed to be their end of the deal...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/26/2002 11:13 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Israel arrests seven Arabs involved in Meron bus bombing
Seven Israeli Arab were arrested several weeks ago on the suspicion that they were involved in carrying out the August 4 Meron junction bus bombing, the Israeli media reported Monday. The seven are members of the Bakri family, which resides in Be'ina, a village in the Galilee. Two of the suspects were named as Muhammad Bakri and his son Ibrahim. According to the reports, some of the family members allowed the suicide bomber, a Jordanian worker they knew, to sleep in their home and drove him to the site of the attack.
"Here's some fresh towels, Ahmed. You're not going to sleep in that dynamite belt, are you? Here's some nice, fresh pyjamas..."
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/26/2002 12:24 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:



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