WASHINGTON -- A decade after American citizens became major victims of Middle East terrorism, the United States and some of its Western allies finally are striking back and sometimes even winning in an unusual arena--the courts.
WASHINGTON -- For six months since taking the oath of office, George Bush had carefully maneuvered to distance himself from the issue of terrorism, but on Monday he was plunged into the worst foreign policy crisis of his presidency by the same uncontrollable nemesis that damaged Ronald Reagan and ended Jimmy Carter’s hopes for a second term.
WASHINGTON -- In a secret campaign to spread its influence beyond Lebanon and Iran, the Shiite extremist group Hezbollah has established a network of operatives in West and Central Africa, an area that may be providing new bases for terrorist acts against Western nations, according to U.S. and French officials. “ Tehran’s reach now extends into Hezbollah communities in West Africa, and it seeks to duplicate there what it did in Lebanon,” said a U.S. official who has been monitoring the trend.
