The Indystar
Today's editorial
Danger lurks within America's borders
Our position: While focusing on foreign terrorism, nation must not lose sight of domestic threats.
The recent indictment of four men who planned to attack synagogues, National Guard recruitment centers and an Israeli consulate office in Los Angeles should serve as a reminder that not all terrorist threats stem from Middle Eastern radicals.
Some are homegrown.
Authorities need to pay particular attention to the nation's prisons, where a mixture of black and white supremacist groups, gangs and radical Muslims blend into a stew of dangerous allies against America.
The groups often share similar anti-Semitic and anti-government views, along with a penchant for violence.
A federal grand jury in California indicted the four men Aug. 31, accusing them of plotting terrorist attacks against the U.S. At least two members of the group met as inmates in state prison in California. Authorities said they have found no evidence tying the men to foreign terrorist organizations.
The 9/11 attacks shifted the nation's focus from domestic terrorism to foreign threats. But danger from domestic groups remains real, as does the possibility of links between domestic and foreign terrorists. While there is no evidence that Arab terrorists have conducted joint operations with any domestic groups, there have been communications between American and Muslim radicals, as well as alliances among black and white separatist organizations.
"Prisons continue to be fertile ground for extremists who exploit both a prisoner's conversion to Islam while still in prison, as well as their socio-economic status and placement in the community upon their release," FBI Director Robert Mueller warned a Senate Intelligence Committee.
Authorities say domestic terrorists are more likely to target a Midwestern city than New York or Washington. That makes Indianapolis vulnerable.
The Oklahoma City bombing taught that terrorists don't always come from outside the nation. Sometimes the most dangerous are lurking within.
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State to aid Gary's efforts to keep branch open
Hundreds of Gary residents, including Willie Cain (left) and Jonathan Boose, staged a Statehouse protest today against the closing of the Gary BMV branch. The Daniels administration said it would work with the city as it explores options for keeping the branch open. -- Charlie Nye / The Star
By Mary Beth Schneider
Temporarily satisfying a couple hundred Gary residents protesting at the Statehouse, Gov. Mitch Daniels' administration said it would work with Gary to find a way to keep open a full-service license branch there.
Bureau of Motor Vehicles Commissioner Joel Silverman met early today with Gary Mayor Scott King and Democrat legislators from Lake County, and reiterated that the branch will close Saturday. He has proposed keeping open a mini-branch, with one employee handling drivers' license and state ID card requests, at a local mental health center.
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050912/NEWS01/50912012
State extends air pollution alert
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By Tammy Webber
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Hoosiers in urban areas should limit outdoor activities at least through Tuesday because of ongoing air pollution, state environmental officials said.
Stagnant weather has trapped microscopic bits of soot dust and liquid droplets near the ground, leading the state to extend alerts for the northwest Indiana, Indianapolis, Evansville, Fort Wayne, Terre Haute and Louisville, Ky., areas.
Children, the elderly and people with heart and breathing problems are at highest risk for health problems because the tiny particles can lodge deep in the lungs and cause breathing and cardiac problems.
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Plane crashes in field, catches fire; 4 dead
Wabash -- A plane crashed in a bean field Saturday night and flipped, killing four people returning home from a dinner trip, Indiana State Police said.
The pilot and his three passengers all died at the scene, the Wabash County coroner's office said. Three of the four were members of a Lagro family.
Police identified the dead as John Swan, 56; Kathy Swan, 54; James Swan, 25; and Vanessa Baer, 22, North Urbana. Family members said John Swan was flying the plane.
Police found the plane, a 1967 Piper Cheyenne Six, about 9 p.m. in a field in southern Wabash County. Investigators said preliminary findings showed the plane's right wing hit the ground and broke off along with the front gear. The plane then flipped onto its top and caught fire.
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Martha comes back like true diva
On the rise: Martha Stewart is aggressively trying to reclaim her good name. Her talk show debuts at 9 a.m. today on WISH . -- Frank Franklin II / Associated Press
By David Carr
The New York Times
Two years after trying to scrub Martha Stewart, the person, out of Martha Stewart, the brand, Martha Stewart, the business, has a new strategy: Martha Stewart, every day.
"I always disagreed with the separation of the name and the brand and the person," Stewart said, with a bit of a laugh at the fact that she is all three. "To build on that name and brand is one thing. To divorce the name and the brand from the person was not an approach that I agreed with."
Stewart, who is now free of her court-mandated monitoring bracelet, is chopping away at the substantial list of chores that piled up for the 10 months while she was in prison and under house arrest.
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EurasiaNet
RUSSIA ADAPTS POLICY TO ADDRESS RIFT WITHIN CIS
Igor Torbakov 9/12/05
Russian policy makers are striving to develop a post-CIS paradigm, in which Moscow distinguishes between "loyal" and "disloyal" neighbors and uses its economic power, namely is energy resources, to reward the Kremlin’s friends and to punish its antagonists within the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Despite an attempt to put an optimistic spin on the latest CIS summit in late August, most Russian policy makers have concluded that the CIS is no longer salvageable as an institution that can advance the Kremlin’s political and economic agenda in the former Soviet space. [For background see the Eurasia Insight archive]. At the summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed the creation of a panel of experts that would consider ways to revamp the organization in a manner more satisfactory to the Kremlin. But even while that proposal moves forward, Russian officials and experts are mulling alternatives that would enable Russia to more efficiently expand its economic reach in the region.
http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav091205a.shtml
A BASE OR NOT A BASE FOR AZERBAIJAN?
Alman Mir Ismail 9/12/05
As the Azerbaijani parliamentary election campaign gathers pace, local media speculation is building about the possible establishment of a US military facility in Azerbaijan.
Both US Ambassador to Azerbaijan Reno Harnish and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev have firmly dismissed the possibility that the US would open a permanent military base on Azerbaijani territory. "I have said this before, and I repeat: ‘Azerbaijan will not host American military bases on its territory," the president said on August 19 while visiting the Agsu, Gabala and Oguz regions. Harnish has similarly denied that Washington has made Aliyev any official request for bases. "[W]e are not going to locate our military bases in the territory of Azerbaijan," the US ambassador told Azerbaijani journalists on August 26, the Russian-language newspaper Zerkalo reported Harnish as saying.
http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav091205ru.shtml
KAZAKHSTAN’S LEADER CLEARS THE DECKS FOR ANOTHER PRESIDENTIAL RUN
Ibragim Alibekov 9/09/05
Kazakhstan has pushed up its presidential election date to December 4, and the incumbent, Nursultan Nazarbayev, seems perfectly positioned to secure a third, seven-year term.
Nazarbayev, who has presided over Kazakhstan’s boom economy since the country gained independence in 1991, was formally nominated on September 9 by the Otan Party. [For background see the Eurasia Insight archive]. The presidential vote was originally scheduled for 2006, but parliament on September 7 decided to move up election-day. Nazarbayev’s main challenger in the election is expected to be Zharmakhan Tuyakbai, a leader of the For a Just Kazakhstan opposition movement.
http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav090905.shtml
GERMANY TAKES LOW-KEY APPROACH TOWARD UZBEKISTAN
Anja Schoeller-Schletter 9/07/05
While Uzbekistan has made a highly publicized decision to evict US military forces from an airbase at Karshi-Khanabad, it does not appear that Tashkent will take similar action against German troops stationed at a facility near Termez, along the Uzbek-Afghan border.
The German government has maintained a low-key approach toward Uzbekistan since the Andijan events in May. [For background see the Eurasia Insight archive]. Germany’s reticence is partly explained by the fact that political leaders have been preoccupied with the country’s looming parliamentary elections. Polls show that Gerhard Schroeder’s incumbent Social Democratic Party-Greens coalition will be hard-pressed to retain power in the September 18 vote.
http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav090705.shtml
TURKMENISTAN BASE RUMOR LIKELY PART OF A RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN
Stephen Blank 9/07/05
A EurasiaNet Commentary
Russian media outlets continue to publish articles claiming that the United States may establish a military base in Turkmenistan. The circumstances surrounding the media reports suggest that Russia is carrying out a disinformation campaign designed to exert pressure on Turkmenistan to adhere to Moscow’s geopolitical line in Central Asia.
The Russian media reports about the possible US base in Turkmenistan began to surface in late August, following Turkmenistan’s decision to de-emphasize its membership in the Commonwealth of Independent States. [For background see the Eurasia Insight archive]. Helping to stoke the base rumors was an August 23 visit by US Gen. John Abizaid, chief of the US Central Command (CENTCOM), to Ashgabat.
http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav090705a.shtml
REPORT: NO BIG GAINS TO ARMENIA IF TURKEY LIFTS BLOCKADE
Haroutiun Khachatrian 8/09/05
A controversial report by an Armenian research and consulting group claims that reopening the Armenian-Turkish border would have a much smaller impact on Armenia’s economy than commonly believed.
The report was presented July 13 by the Armenian-European Political Legal Advice Center (AEPLAC), a prominent think tank sponsored by the European Union. It contended that Armenia would see its economy expand by only $20-23 million annually, or just 0.67 percent of its current Gross Domestic Product, if Turkey decided to lift its 12-year blockade of the Armenian border. Over the next five years, Armenia’s GDP would see an additional 2.7 percent increase over the country’s level in 2004.
http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/business/articles/eav080905.shtml
UZBEKISTAN: ANDIJON AND THE ’INFORMATION WAR’
Daniel Kimmage 9/11/05
A EurasiaNet Partner Post from RFE/RL
The horrific violence that struck Andijon in May unfolded in the space of 24 hours. But the struggle to define the event -- to reveal the facts and to explain their significance -- continues. Inside Uzbekistan, the struggle to define Andijon has been fierce, pitting Uzbek officialdom and the media and means at its disposal against a limited number of nongovernment media and a small community of activists who have no other access to the broader public. The result has been, to quote Uzbek President Islam Karimov, an "information war" that has already claimed its first casualties and is poised to provide the troubling backdrop to whatever will happen next in Uzbekistan.
As presented by President Karimov, government spokespeople, and journalists in state-controlled media, the core of the official story is that a group of armed religious extremists tried to foment an Islamist coup in Andijon. The terrorists seized government buildings, took hostages, tortured and murdered officials, and finally initiated a violent confrontation with the security forces that had surrounded them. The ensuing bloodshed claimed 187 lives, the Uzbek Prosecutor-General’s Office maintains.
http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/civilsociety/articles/pp091105.shtml
DISSENT OVER LAND REFORM MAY PORTEND UNREST IN MONGOLIA
12/20/02
Activists in Ulanbataar say that 2003 could be a pivotal year in Mongolia, with intense debate arising out of discontent with a law on land privatization that is due to take effect in May. Organizations and opposition parties are gearing up to fight a new land policy that critics say discriminates against the rural poor by delivering outsize payments to large landholders. Experts who do not necessarily oppose this new policy also see it as cause for worry. The government’s handling of land legislation, these people say, raises questions about the future of democracy in Mongolia.
http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/rights/articles/eav122002.shtml
THE CIS: THE END OF THE ROAD?
Sergei Blagov 8/29/05
The Commonwealth of Independent States appears near the end of its existence. Even if the organization does survive, it will do so in a significantly different form, political analysts say.
Established amid the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, the CIS has largely failed to fulfill its potential as an institution for the promotion of closer political and economic links. Many member states have been unable to set aside concerns that Russia, the organization’s dominant partner, wants to use the CIS as a vehicle for the preservation of Moscow’s influence in the former Soviet space. [For background see the Eurasia Insight archive]. As a result, agreements among member states routinely went unimplemented.
http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav082905.shtml
KAZAKHSTAN’S LEADER CLEARS THE DECKS FOR ANOTHER PRESIDENTIAL RUN
Ibragim Alibekov 9/09/05
Kazakhstan has pushed up its presidential election date to December 4, and the incumbent, Nursultan Nazarbayev, seems perfectly positioned to secure a third, seven-year term.
Nazarbayev, who has presided over Kazakhstan’s boom economy since the country gained independence in 1991, was formally nominated on September 9 by the Otan Party. [For background see the Eurasia Insight archive]. The presidential vote was originally scheduled for 2006, but parliament on September 7 decided to move up election-day. Nazarbayev’s main challenger in the election is expected to be Zharmakhan Tuyakbai, a leader of the For a Just Kazakhstan opposition movement.
http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav090905.shtml
NAGORNO-KARABAKH: PEACE ON THE HORIZON?
Haroutiun Khachatrian 8/17/05
Armenian leaders are hopeful, but cautious as they approach what could prove to be pivotal talks concerning the future of the Nagorno-Karabakh territory.
Armenian President Robert Kocharian will try to break the existing deadlock in the Karabakh talks when he meets Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliyev August 26, amid a summit of Commonwealth of Independent States member states. As a prelude to those discussions, Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian and Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov are expected to hold talks in Moscow on August 23.
http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav081705b.shtml
AFGHAN HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES: A CHANCE FOR CHANGE
Ahmed Rashid 8/04/05
A EurasiaNet Commentary
An extraordinary series of reports by Afghan and international experts on the 27 long years of bloody human rights abuses in Afghanistan are for the first time placing enormous pressure on the Afghan government, the US administration in Afghanistan and the United Nations to take steps against the perpetrators, many of whom remain in positions of influence and power.
Until now, the US and Afghan governments have begged off starting any process of accountability of war criminals for a variety of reasons, including the lack of a judicial system in Afghanistan. However, a verdict in an extraordinary trial at the Old Bailey in London may show a way out.
http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/civilsociety/articles/eav080405.shtml
AFGHANISTAN: NATO LOOKS TO EXPAND MISSION AFTER SEPTEMBER ELECTIONS
Ron Synovitz 9/05/05
A EurasiaNet Partner Post from RFE/RL
The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has completed the deployment of an additional 2,000 troops to support Afghanistan’s upcoming parliamentary elections. With a total of 11,000 troops across the country, ISAF is now larger and more widely deployed than it has ever been during nearly four years of UN-backed political reforms known as the Bonn Process. In addition, NATO’s top commander says the alliance is now planning for an expanded role that would merge UN-mandated security assistance with US-led combat operations.
NATO’s top commander, US General James Jones, says the alliance is now "correctly poised and sized" for its security mission during Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections on September 18.
http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/pp090505.shtml
PAKISTAN SAYS DEAD MILITANTS HAD KAZAKH PASSPORTS
7/18/05
A EurasiaNet Partner Post from RFE/RL
The Pakistani military suggested today that a group of militants killed in a firefight near the Afghan border yesterday were Kazakh nationals, while a Kazakh diplomatic source insisted it is too early to be certain that they were Kazakh citizens.
Pakistani military spokesman Major General Shaukat Sultan announced the Kazakh connection in a statement today in Islamabad to AFP.
But a spokesman for the Kazakh Embassy in Islamabad, Yernur Tuyaqbaev, told RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service today that it is too early to be certain whether or not those killed are Kazakh nationals.
http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/pp071805.shtml
INITIAL RESULTS OF AFGHAN GOVERNMENT ANTI-DRUG CAMPAIGN ARE POSITIVE - REPORT
Claudio Franco 9/08/05
Amid an upswing in violence in Afghanistan ahead of parliamentary elections, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has reported encouraging news on the Afghan government’s efforts to curb narcotics production.
Clashes between security forces and Islamic militants have intensified in recent weeks, as Afghanistan prepares to hold long-anticipated parliamentary elections September 18. [For background see the Eurasia Insight archive]. In early September, for example, a joint operation mounted by US and Afghan troops in southern Kandahar Province resulted in the deaths of 13 militants and the capture of 44 others.
http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav090805.shtml
The New York Times
Covering New Orleans: The Decade Before the Storm
By BYRON CALAME
Published: September 11, 2005
THE early coverage of the devastation of New Orleans revealed a depth of poverty and a troubled levee system that caught many by surprise. As a national newspaper with high aspirations, The New York Times assumes a responsibility to alert its readers to significant problems as they emerge in major cities such as New Orleans.
Poverty so pervasive that it hampered evacuation would seem to have been worthy of The Times's attention before it emerged as a pivotal challenge two weeks ago. And the inadequacies of the levee system deserved to be brought to the attention of readers more clearly long before the storm hit.
Yet a look back over the past 10 years of Times coverage of New Orleans in its news columns raises serious questions about how well the paper helped readers recognize and understand these two major problems that have compounded the devastation and tragedy of the storm.
Poverty emerged as a life-and-death issue as Hurricane Katrina approached the city on Sunday, Aug. 28, and it became clear that many poor residents didn't have cars in which to evacuate. To make matters worse, many poor residents lived in low-lying areas where flooding arrived the soonest and rose the highest.
As we're now being reminded almost daily, more than two-thirds of the residents of New Orleans are black, and about one in four citizens lives in poverty. The Times has noted that in the Lower Ninth Ward neighborhood, which was inundated by the floodwaters, 98 percent of the residents are black and more than a third live in poverty.
"As a close reader of The Times and of poverty trends," S. M. Miller, of Brookline, Mass., told me in an e-mail last week, "I was surprised to learn of the poverty conditions that prevailed in New Orleans. ... Why didn't the economic-social-racial conditions in New Orleans get some attention in the paper?" His conclusion: "The Times let us down."
Indeed, over the past decade Times readers would have been hard-pressed to find a news headline about the poverty in the midst of the city that brings to the minds of many Americans the revelry of Mardi Gras and Bourbon Street. A search of substantive Times news articles about New Orleans since September 1995, conducted with the help of a researcher for the paper, found none that focused on the city's poor and the racial dimension of poverty. And there were only two articles about the city - both feature stories - that contained a few paragraphs on poverty and race.
Poverty's presence was vividly described in a November 2000 feature article in the Weekend section. "Poverty persists, cheek by jowl with wealth, much of it inherited," the article said. "A block or two from mansions with palm-shaded gardens stand crude unpainted bungalows fronting on crumbling streets, more reminiscent of the third world than dot-com America." It added: "Most of the poor, in a city almost three-quarters black, are African-American." Unfortunately, however, finding these words required reading to the 16th paragraph of the 3,700-word article.
A 1996 Sunday Magazine profile of the city's police superintendent noted that more residents of New Orleans lived in poverty then than in any other large American city except Detroit. The article suggested that the ghettos of New Orleans "have been ignored for decades because even though black politicians have controlled City Hall since 1978, African-Americans have never broken the white hold on economic power." These insights didn't come until the 12th paragraph of the 3,400-word article.
What readers would have been more likely to find in The Times's past decade of news coverage of New Orleans were stylishly written articles about the city's charm, cuisine and colorful characters. While some of those articles dealt with crime in the city's predominantly black neighborhoods, the issue of poverty was seldom explored in any depth.
Levees obviously remain a central issue in the crisis. As experts expected, Katrina showed that a Category 4 or 5 hurricane would send water over the top of the city's levees and flood its below-sea-level "bowl." But the breaches in levees and canal walls made things dramatically worse and raised broader questions about the area's flood control system.
What had The Times's news columns provided over the past decade to help its readers understand the New Orleans levee system? One major article that focused on levees. The 2,100-word article on the front of the Science section in 2002 made clear that a Category 4 or 5 hurricane would send water over the top of the levees. While the public editor's focus is on news coverage, there was also an Editorial Observer commentary in 2002 that took a detailed look at the problem, based on reporting in New Orleans. But neither the news article nor the editorial commentary prepared readers for the possibility of breaches in the levees or canal walls.
The article in the Science section did paint a prescient picture: "Water cascading over the levee wall ... is just one part of the nightmare, the experts say. Draining the city after the storm moves away may take weeks, they point out. The city would be trapped inside the levees, steeped in a worsening 'witches' brew' of pollutants like sewage, landfill waste, chemicals and the bodies of drowned humans and animals."
Given the dimensions of poverty in New Orleans and the city's dependence on a levee system, The Times's news coverage of these problems over the past decade falls far short of what its readers have a right to expect of a national newspaper.
Sources and Motives
When anonymous sources are used in articles, The Times's policy calls for telling readers as much as possible about their motivation. At the same time, however, named sources are showing up in the paper without relevant background information that would help readers assess their comments. In a similar vein, readers also deserve to know relevant facts about Op-Ed page contributors and individuals who write letters to the editor.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and the City Council, a May article reported, had agreed to adopt proposed legislation that would establish so-called potty parity for restrooms in certain public places. The proposal, now enacted, requires the affected establishments to provide women with roughly two bathroom stalls for each stall or urinal available to men.
This assessment appeared in the fourth paragraph of the article: " 'I think it's very important, because New York City tends to set the standard, as they did when they banned smoking, which was immediately followed in many other jurisdictions,' said John F. Banzhaf III, a professor of public interest law at George Washington University who has studied the issue."
Saying Mr. Banzhaf has "studied the issue" suggests that he was a detached expert. In fact, Mr. Banzhaf has been a party to at least one formal complaint filed with the Department of Education about a public facility on a college campus and has been referred to as the "Father of Potty Parity." Readers absolutely deserved to know this.
This problem can exist in the opinion pages, too, even though the expectations of readers coming to those pages should be a little different. In a recent Op-Ed article about Internet companies and revolutionary technology, "Irreplaceable Exuberance," the author identification line read simply: "Henry Blodget, a former Wall Street analyst, writes frequently for Slate."
Missing was the fact that Mr. Blodget has been barred from the securities business for life under a 2003 agreement with the Securities and Exchange Commission. He had also paid a $4 million fine. It wasn't enough, it seems to me, for Mr. Blodget to remark in a parenthetical aside well down in his article, "This was an unfortunate theory of mine - one that, along with some e-mails that caught the notice of the Securities and Exchange Commission, helped my Wall Street career go the way of eToys."
Finally, there's the Book Review section's egalitarian treatment of its letters to the editor. Its policy is to use just the letter writer's name and city, eschewing titles and other claims to fame. The Aug. 21 issue published several letters that quarreled with a recent cover essay on possible media bias by Richard A. Posner.
One of the more robust letters - in both its passion and its length - was signed by plain Bill Keller, New York. It was, indeed, the same Bill Keller who is executive editor of The Times. Several readers have asked why notice was not taken of his special position.
"After all," said Peter M. Knapp, of Pembroke, Mass., "he was writing as a twice-vested insider on a matter, published in his own newspaper, about his profession." He added, "If there was ever a case for 'disclosure,' this certainly is it."
The public editor serves as the readers' representative. His opinions and conclusions are his own. His column appears at least twice monthly in this section.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/11/opinion/11publiceditor.html
Sydney Morning Herald
Synagogues burn as Gaza changes hands
By Ed O'Loughlin Herald Correspondent in Gaza
September 13, 2005
Ablaze … Palestinian militants watch the former Israeli settlement of Kfar Darom burn.
Photo: AFP
In the dark hours before dawn yesterday the last Israeli tank reversed out of its bulldozed position somewhere in Gaza, at Netzarim or Elei Sinai or Kfar Darom, perhaps for good.
At 2 am, tracer bullets darted over Gaza City, as Palestinian soldiers saluted the fires that were springing up against the southern sky. The settlements were burning; after 38 years of at best strained coexistence, the Israelis were gone.
Jubilant Palestinians planted flags on the rubble of Jewish settlements and set synagogues ablaze. "This is a day of happiness and joy that the Palestinian people have not witnessed for a century," the President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, said.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/synagogues-burn-as-gaza-changes-hands/2005/09/12/1126377257159.html
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